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Sharief to back Benazir's party in government

K J M Varma in Islamabad

Deposed Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharief has said his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz will support former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians if it manages to secure a majority of the 342 National Assembly seats in the general election.

As the scrutiny of nominations for the October 10 polls ended on Monday night, the papers of over a dozen top party leaders from different parts of the country were rejected on one ground or the other, PPPP spokesman Faratullah Babar said on Tuesday.

However, the party has managed to field back-up candidates in most of the constituencies where the rejections had occurred, save in Larkana, the hometown of Bhutto, where the Sindh province poll officials have rejected the nomination papers of the back-up candidate too, he said.

Sharief has withdrawn from the poll race, despite the acceptance of his papers, in solidarity with Bhutto.

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