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Pakistani Parliament Picks Moderate Prime Minister

By Michael Sullivan
Published November 20, 2002 at 9:00 PM PST
This story was published more than 22 years ago.

Pakistan's parliament chooses a new prime minister, the first since Gen. Pervez Musharraf seized power in an October 1999 coup. Zafarullah Khan Jamali is considered to be a moderate, and has the support of the military. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

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Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan is NPR's Senior Asia Correspondent. He moved to Hanoi to open NPR's Southeast Asia Bureau in 2003. Before that, he spent six years as NPR's South Asia correspondent based in but seldom seen in New Delhi.

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