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Zardari to address NA amid concern over US strikes

Meets Bush in New York Tuesday

AFP, Islamabad
Pakistan’s newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari will address parliament for the first time this weekend, officials said, amid mounting concerns over direct US strikes in its tribal areas.
Zardari, who was sworn into office on September 9 and succeeds Pervez Musharraf, has summoned both houses of parliament to meet at 3:00pm (0900 GMT) Saturday for his address, a government statement said.
The widower of slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto and co-chairman of her Pakistan People's Party, Zardari sailed into presidency smoothly despite a controversial past.
Musharraf resigned on August
19 after the coalition government threatened to impeach him over constitutional violations including his failure to address the parliament annually.
Musharraf addressed the parliament only once during his eightyear rule, when opposition politicians booed and chanted hostile slogans.
Officials did not reveal what Zardari planned to say in his address.
"It is an important event and the president is addressing the parliament in less than 15 days after taking the oath," senior presidential aide Farhatullah Babar told AFP.
"It is normally a speech prepared by the government in which
the president reviews the entire working of the government and enunciates its domestic and foreign policies."
His address comes as Pakistan faces incursions and missile strikes against alleged al-Qaeda linked militants in its tribal areas by US-led forces based in Afghanistan.
Zardari is due to meet US President George W. Bush for die first time on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Bush and Zardari, who was sworn into office on September 9 to take over from Pervez Musharraf, will meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
The talks will come just three days before Bush meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and as drones apparently operated by US troops from Afghanistan almost daily strike targets in the tribal border areas of northwest Pakistan.
The Bush administration has accused Tabban Islamic militants and al-Qaeda followers of using the unruly border areas as bases from which to direct a growing deadly insurgency in Afghanistan.