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1 of 2. Pakistan's former Prime Minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif (L) comforts supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto at a hospital in Rawalpindi December 27, 2007, where she died in a gun and bomb attack. Bhutto was assassinated by a suicide bomber on Thursday, plunging the nuclear-armed country into chaos ahead of a general election she hoped to win.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday his party would boycott a January 8 general election because of the assassination of another opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto.
"The PML (N) is boycotting the election after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto," Sharif told a news conference in Islamabad, referring to his party.
"Free elections are not possible in the presence of Musharraf," he said referring to President Pervez Musharraf. "Musharraf is the root cause of all problems."
Old rivals Bhutto, also a former prime minister, and Sharif had recently cooperated in their opposition to Musharraf.
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