Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is willing to return to her country to provide leadership to the opposition against the military rule in the wake of a vaccum created after the sudden exile of Pakistan Muslim League leader Nawaz Sharif, a newspaper report said. She will do that only at the invitation of the party's central executive committee which is now studying the pros and cons of her possible safe return, The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) vice chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim told 'The Gulf News' in Dubai. Fahim was in Dubai along with some top PPP leaders from Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan to meet Benazir who is in Dubai on the occasion of ID.
At an Iftar dinner offered by Benazir for the party leaders at her residence last evening, they discussed the current political situation in Pakistan and how best to take advantage of the situation after Sharif's exit. The leaders denied that the PPP was seeking a deal with the military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf for Benazir's return or for the release of her husband Asif Ali Zardari, The Daily said.
“It is all propaganda as there is no such efforts in the process. Neither did I ask for a meeting with him (Gen Musharraf) nor did I meet him secretly,” Fahim said.
The report said quoting a PPP source that the party was divided on the issue of Benazir's return to Pakistan.
Some of them want her to come back immediately and face trail as they believed that the time was ripe for her return after Sharif's exile, while another group insisted that she should stay abroad unless they discussed the issue in detail , the report said.
Bureau Report