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April 4, 2008 / 10:34 AM

Pakistan leader promises constitution

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, April 4 (UPI) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani promised Friday to restore the constitution and ensure an independent judiciary.

He called also for upholding the supremacy of the parliament in a television message on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistan People's Party and father of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto,

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Bhutto, he said, gave Pakistan a unanimous constitution and made it a nuclear power.

The PPP has said it will get a resolution passed in parliament to apologize to the nation for the "judicial murder" of Benazir Bhutto, PTI reported.

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