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Bhutto loyalist favored for prime minister job
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A veteran politician with a reputation as
a consensus builder emerged Friday as the favorite to become
Pakistan's next prime minister under an agreement by the two biggest
opposition parties to form a new government together.
In a sign of the challenges facing the new leadership, 12 people
died Friday when a bomb ripped through a truck carrying wedding
guests in an area where al-Qaida-linked militants operate. Police
said most of the dead were women.
It w...
