Pakistan's nominated Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani (R), with party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (L) and co-chariman Asif Ali Zardari, pose for a photograph in Islamabad March 22, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Thursday summoned the National Assembly session for the election of a new Prime Minister on March 24 and would administer the PM's oath-taking on March 25.
PPP and coalition partners' PM candidate will have little problem to be elected since a major opposition party has decided to withdraw its Prime Minister candidate after mutual consultation.
The PPP emerged as the largest party in the National Assembly in the general elections held on February 18.
Gilani, born in June 1952 in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, was the Speaker of the National Assembly during the second government of Benazir Bhutto, the former PPP leader who was assassinated last December in a suicide attack.
Gillani is currently the PPP's vice president.
(Xinhua News Agency March 24, 2008)
