Bhutto ready to meet Musharraf
PAKISTAN: Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto told AFP Wednesday
she wanted to meet President Pervez Musharraf face-to-face after making
progress in talks on a power-sharing deal between them.
The two-time prime minister added that she would return home from
self-exile in London and Dubai in "weeks, not months," ahead of upcoming
presidential and parliamentary elections.
"There has been progress in some areas and we are working on those
areas," she told AFP in a telephone interview after the stalled
negotiations resumed this week, adding that "good" progress had been
made. "I prefer face-to-face negotiations between himself and myself
(but) I also appreciate that he has got a country to run and that might
be very difficult," she said when asked if she would meet the military
ruler.
Asked when she now planned to fly back to Pakistan, which she left
eight years ago after serving as premier between 1988-1990 and
1993-1996, Bhutto said her return would take place in "weeks, not
months."
Islamabad, Thursday, AFP. |