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Thu 11 Nov 2002Pakistan set for Muslim League leadershipPAKISTAN: The main pro-military Pakistan Muslim League party is poised to get its candidate elected prime minister today and form a government to continue President Pervez Musharraf's foreign and economic policies."Inshallah [God willing], we will get the majority," the party's prime ministerial candidate, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, told reporters after filing his nomination for the post.