Pakistan parliament elects woman speaker

Pakistan’s new parliament elected the country’s first female speaker from the party of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto today.

Pakistan parliament elects woman speaker

Pakistan’s new parliament elected the country’s first female speaker from the party of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto today.

Fehmida Mirza, who has vowed to run parliament “like a home,” got straight down to business inviting Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, the new opposition leader, to speak first.

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