Clinton-led team to monitor Pak general elections

A 1, 500-strong delegation headed by former US President Bill Clinton would monitor the forthcoming general elections in Pakistan, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has claimed.

Lahore, Sep 11 : A 1, 500-strong delegation headed by former US President Bill Clinton would monitor the forthcoming general elections in Pakistan, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has claimed.

The delegation would visit various cities and villages to monitor the electoral process, said PPP's Punjab Additional General Secretary and President Peoples Labour Bureau, Abdul Qadir Shaheen.

Following a joint stand taken by the PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, other political parties and lawyers' bodies, the world community had decided to monitor elections in Pakistan, Shaheen said.

Commenting on the deportation of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia, the PPP leader said that it would be a stupid thinking on the part of rulers that after sending the PML-N chief in exile yet again, they would also block the way of Bhutto.

"She would land in Pakistan before elections in any case and no body would dare stop her", The Nation quoted him, as saying.

ANI