Pakistan set for polls in May

Pakistan will hold general elections in May, state media quoted a cabinet minister as saying Tuesday, although a spokesman for the presidency said a date had yet to be finalised.
Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told reporters in the eastern city of Lahore that the next election would be held in May 2013, state news agency APP reported.
It would mark the first time that a democratically elected civilian government in Pakistan completes a full term in office and hands over to a new, elected administration.
APP quoted Kaira as saying "nothing can postpone the schedule of the next general election but some natural catastrophe".