PPP’s Fahim may be PM
Makhdoom Amin Fahim, vice chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), appeared to have won support to be the party’s consensus candidate for the Prime Minister’s post at a meeting of its parliamentary party here today. The meeting, however, withheld the announcement of the name and authorised PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari to do that at an appropriate time.

Asif Ali Zardari (left), widower of slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, former premier Nawaz Sharif (centre) and Sharif’s brother Shahbaz Sharif attend a joint press conference after their meeting at Zardari’s residence in Islamabad where they decided on forming a government, late on Thursday night. — AFP