Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has withdrawn his decision of elections boycott and said his party would take part in the polls.

Sharif, quoted by the News Network International news agency, said that Pakistan People's Party and the people of Sindh appealed to him to take part in the elections. He considered the appeal and after consultations he decided to contest the elections.

Sharif expressed serious concern over what he described as the worst chaos in the country.

The widowed husband of slain Pakistani former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Monday said early elections in Pakistan would bring about a cure to the tension in the nation following the assassination of his wife last week.

free and fair immediate elections is a cure, to convert the energy into a... the fact that people have taken their revenge in voting rather than burning.

The Election Commission said it had recommended an unspecified delay in the parliamentary polls following unrest triggered after Bhutto was killed in a suicide bomb and gun attack on Thursday.

The Commission will make a final decision on whether to hold the general elections as scheduled on next Tuesdsay.

After days of rioting that left at least 44 dead, life in many Pakistani cities began returning to normal, though soldiers and police patrolled many areas.