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Six weeks after his wife was assassinated, the husband of Benazir Bhutto relaunched her party's election campaign and denounced those he said had killed her.
In front of a crowd of at least 80,000 - considerably larger than those at Pakistan People's Party (PPP) rallies when Bhutto was alive - Asif Ali Zardari urged ecstatic supporters to help him "save the country".
Pakistan goes to the polls a week today.
Many hope the elections will restore an element of democracy, nine years after President Pervez Musharraf seized power in a coup.
Yesterday, 18 people were killed and 24 injured in a suicide bombing in the North-West Frontier Province town of Charsadda, where the Awami National Party was campaigning.
- INDEPENDENT
