By The Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto named former parliament speaker Yousaf Raza Gilani as its candidate for Pakistan's next prime minister on Saturday. Bhutto's Pakistan's People's Party won the biggest parliamentary bloc in Feb.

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan _ A teenager reportedly posing as a beggar blew himself up near an army car at a stoplight Monday afternoon, killing the country's surgeon general and seven others a week after parliamentary elections ushered in a new government opposed to President Pervez Musharraf. Lt. Gen.

President Pervez Musharraf said Thursday that uncertainty remained about the exact cause of Benazir Bhutto's death, despite an initial government report that she was killed when a bomb blast slammed her head into her vehicle.

Pakistan's U.S.-allied president must resign before next month's elections or the country could risk slipping into civil war, opposition leaders and a leading independent research institute said Thursday.

The Associated Press ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, despite contention over the circumstances of her death and three days of paralyzing turmoil.