Pakistan’s political crisis intensified on sunday after exiled former prime minister,Benazir Bhutto, vowed to return home having failed to reach a power-sharing deal with president Dervez Musharraf.
Key united states ally musharraf now faces the spectre of two ex-premiers flying home to challenge his shaky eight-year military regime, with nawaz sharif,the man he ousted in a 1999 comp, also pledging to come back.
The nuclear-armed islamic republic has been wracked by instability ahead of an election due in september or october, in which musharraf plans to make a hostly-opposed bid to win another five-year term as president-in-uniform.
Two- time premier bhutto said on saturday that she was determined to end her self imposed exile over corruption charges and would announce th date of her return on september 14, four days after sheriff is set to fly home;
”No understanding has been arrived at and we are making our plans to return ”Bhutto told a press conference in london when asked about the week-long backroom negotiations with musharraf.
”I plan to return to pakistan in the next few weeks to work for a moderate ,a democratic pakistan, ”said Bhutto, who has come under five in her own pakistan people’s party for dealing with a military ruler.
On sunday, Bhutto told the BBC the talls had stalled over the issue of parliamentary powers. She had demanded that musharraf relinquish his power to dissolve parliament.
”I’m trying to get pailiament that is sovereign, that can tackle the issue of militancy and poverty that are at the moment the main trouble spots for pakistan ” she said”i don’t want to see chaose and anarchy and bloodshed” she added,
”I want to help the people of pakistan have peaceful,transitive way towards democracy, and that’s why we had this dialogue.
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