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Bhutto Ready To Enter FrayBENAZIR BHUTTO says Pakistan is facing its moment of truth. She is preparing to return from exile eight years after leaving Pakistan amid corruption claims. She claimed last week that President Pervez Musharraf – who is wooing her back in a deal that he hopes will enable him to be reelected president with her as the next prime minister – was ready to meet her demand that he step down as army chief. His aides denied this, and yesterday she confirnmed that a power-sharing deal had not yet been reached. Bhutto – who plans to announce the date of her return on September 14 – has said that if elected she would move swiftly to assert law and order in the wild tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and to hunt down the Al-Qaeda leaders who were trying to take advantage of the lawlessness there. She has also pledged to stop the heroin trade, which has been funding and fuelling terrorism, and to reform Pakistan’s political madrasahs – schools – which have become militant headquarters. She promised a policy of noninterference in Afghanistan and accused elements in the Pakistan intelligence service, the ISI, of continuing an alliance with both the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. She has not explained how she can carry through these actions when Musharraf, the army man, plans to return home on September 10. By refusing to negotiate with Musharraf, unlike Bhutto, Sharif has enhanced his popularity. Pakistani analysts say the deepening political crisis may yet tempt Musharraf to impose emergency rule, a move he is said to have contemplated taking in early August but was discouraged from carrying out by the Americans. has failed. But she argued that in her two terms as prime minister Pakistan was more united than it is now and that a military government under Musharraf had shown it could not win the war on terror and was dangerous for Pakistan and the region. Complicating the proposed power-sharing deal is the fact that Bhutto’s rival, the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the man Musharraf ousted in 1999, says he Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationWarning of new bird flu danger...2nd U.N. Nuclear Team Arrives in North Korea... Military Considers Sending as Many as 35,000 More U.S. Troops to Iraq, McCain Sa... French aid workers home from Chad to face four years in prison for child ’abduct... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Bhutto Ready To Enter Fray |
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