Pakistan's ruling party today dashed hopes that the country's scheduled January elections would go ahead as planned. The country's state TV quoted the president, General Pervez Musharraf, and Chaudhury Shujaat Hussain, the president of the ruling party PML-Q, as saying the vote would be delayed until mid February.
"The polls will not be shifted to any date beyond that time and there should be no doubt about it," Mr Hussain told the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan news agency.
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The announcement came after a meeting of Gen Musharraf's national security council. The new February date for the poll will break Pakistani law. According to the country's constitution, suspended since Gen Musharraf imposed emergency rule last Saturday, elections must be held within 60 days of the parliamentary term, November 15. Full Story
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