Zardari may be sworn-in tomorrow or day after

Rezaul H Laskar
Islamabad, Sep 7 (PTI) Pakistan's President-elect Asif Ali Zardari, who has won a landslide victory in the elections to the top post, is likely to take oath Monday or on Tuesday.

"We are waiting for the notification of the presidential election's result to be issued by the Election Commission. A formal announcement about the oath-taking ceremony will be made after that," Zardari's spokesman Farhatullah Babar told Dawn newspaper.

Information Minister Sherry Rehman told a T.V. news channel that Zardari, who will succeed former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to be the country's 14th President, may take oath Monday or Tuesday.

Meanwhile, sources in the Pakistan People's Party
(P.P.P.) said Zardari will wait for his son and P.P.P.
chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to arrive from London before
an official announcement about the ceremony is made.

Zardari's former ally Pakistan Muslim League (P.M.L.-N.)
chief Nawaz Sharif has put off a private visit to London to
attend the swearing-in ceremony. Sharif was earlier scheduled
to leave for London Sunday.

The husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who
had defeated the candidate of P.M.L.-N. by an overwhelming
majority in the presidential polls yesterday, has sought the
support of all democratic forces in achieving the mission of
bringing complete democracy to Pakistan. (More) PTI RHL
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