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To: c.hinton who wrote (252631)	12/30/2007 9:58:53 AM
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Benazir Bhutto's son Bilawal to lead party By Massoud Ansari in Ghari Khuda Bakhsh and Richard Holt Last Updated: 2:34pm GMT 30/12/2007 Page 1 of 3 Benazir Bhutto's 19-year old son has been appointed chairman of his late mother's opposition political party in Pakistan. Watch: Bhutto's son and husband to lead party Pakistan offers to exhume Benazir Bhutto Watch: The 'assassination video' released by the Pakistan government Bilawal Bhutto, who is reading history at Oxford, will chair the Pakistan People's Party with his father, Asif Ali Zardar, as co-chairman. Bilawal Bhutto right, being comforted by his father Asif Ali Zardar Party officials made the announcement after the reading of Miss Bhutto's will following her assassination last week. It has also been announced that Pakistan's parliamentary elections are likely to be delayed by up to four months in the wake of the assassination, according to the country's ruling party. Tariq Azim, a spokesman for the party backing President Pervez Musharraf, said conditions had made it too difficult to go ahead with the Jan 8 polls in the wake of the death of the opposition leader and former prime minister. "How long the postponement will be for will be up to the Election Commission," Mr Azim told the Associated Press. "I think we are looking at a delay of a few weeks... of up to three or four months." The statement came as the row as to exactly how Miss Bhutto died intensified. Watch: Eyewitness account of the killing (Note: Graphic content)