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Karachi, Dec 25: A team of international observers has arrived in Pakistan to monitor the January 8, 2008 general election.

The team sent by Washington-based International Republican Institute (IRI) started its scheduled visits to Sindh starting from Jamshoro district on Monday.

Initially the team met with Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur, the Pakistan People's Party candidate for NA-231, Sehwan-Kotri, who briefed them about upcoming polls.

Talpur told the foreign observers that the PPP welcomed the most recent steps taken by Musharraf, especially giving up the uniform and removing emergency, and added that the PPP expected he would also hold free and fair elections.

Kohat, Dec 25: The vice-president of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Saranjam Khan, has said that the country and President Pervez Musharraf cannot co-exist.

Addressing a public meeting here during the election campaign of PML-N candidate Javed Ibrahim Paracha, Khan described religious parties and the Pakistan Muslim League (Q), as hypocrite promoting the US agenda under the Musharraf’s guidance.

He also criticised the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) for extending covert support to Musharraf and warned that the country would lose its sovereignty if the PML-Q came to power.

Islamabad, Dec 25: The Foreign Office has rejected a report published in the New York Times that Pakistan has squandered over five billion dollars in aid, saying that the report was baseless.

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