I wonder what she will have to announce?
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She is going to say that time for deal is running out like she has been saying for last 4 months...
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Drama queen.
It's all been decided for her by higher powers, and these CWC meetings are just a sham.
Re: BB's news conference in London at 1100 GMT
I wonder what she will have to announce?
Even if there is a deal I think she is not going to announce as she can not risk public back lash...
Re: BB's news conference in London at 1100 GMT
Even if there is a deal I think she is not going to announce as she can not risk public back lash...
Yep, part of the deal is to deny that there is any deal.
Re: BB’s news conference in London at 1100 GMT
Bhutto hints at power-share deal.
Lookslike there are lots of hints, and nudge nudge wink winks.
Former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto has said she expects a breakthrough on Thursday on power-sharing talks with President Pervez Musharraf.
Ms Bhutto said in London she expected to be given an amnesty on corruption charges against her.
Gen Musharraf wants legislators to re-elect him president on Saturday although he may face legal challenges.
Ms Bhutto has lived in self-exile abroad since before Gen Musharraf seized power in 1999.
Ms Bhutto has pledged to return to Pakistan on 18 October to fight general elections.
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Benazir says PPP-govt deal seems closer
LONDON: Former premier and PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto said Thursday that PPP-government deal seemed closer, however, she said, the outcome was expected till the return of Makhdoom Amin Fahim to Pakistan.“ We are closer to reach deal with government but result should be waited till the return of Makhdoom Amin Fahim to Pakistan,” she said while addressing a press conference here. She expected an amnesty from President Pervez Musharraf what she termed the amnesty, which was not specific to only PPP but for all political parties for national reconciliation. “We’re expecting an ordinance and the deal would be finalized after promulgation of the ordinance,” she told reporters, using diplomatic language for the so-called national reconciliation ordinance from Musharraf which would include an amnesty.
BB upbeat over power-sharing
Ex-Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto has said she is “optimistic” of a power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf.
She said conditions over an amnesty on corruption charges against her had been verbally agreed with officials. She said her party did not expect to join a boycott of a parliamentary vote on Saturday, which is expected to see Gen Musharraf re-elected as president.
Ms Bhutto has pledged to return to Pakistan from self-exile on 18 October to fight general elections in January.
She left Pakistan before Gen Musharraf took power in 1999.
Credibility
Speaking after talks with her opposition Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in London, Ms Bhutto said: "We are optimistic today, but I cannot say everything is finalised. “Gen Musharraf has said he wants national reconciliation. We want that too. The nation should move from the past to a better future.”
She said there had been “hectic negotiations and discussions and assurances” during which the terms for a written document, or ordinance, were agreed.
Ms Bhutto said: “If the national reconciliation ordinance is accordingly worded, we expect there will be an understanding on a transition towards democracy.”
She added that if the deal was completed she would not carry through a threat to withdraw the PPP, the country’s largest party, from parliament.
Such a mass resignation threatened to undermine the credibility of Saturday’s vote.
“We will either contest the elections or we will abstain from the voting,” she said.
But Ms Bhutto made clear that PPP members would not be voting for Gen Musharraf as he was “a uniformed president”.
Ms Bhutto had demanded that Gen Musharraf step down as head of the army. Correspondents say that his pledge to resign and be sworn in as a civilian if re-elected has been enough to reassure Ms Bhutto.
Scores of opposition MPs have resigned from Pakistan’s national parliament and provincial assemblies in protest at Saturday’s election. They insist that Gen Musharraf is ineligible to stand while also remaining army chief.
In Islamabad, Pakistan cabinet minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said the government was close to an agreement on power-sharing and that “things are going in the right direction”.
In addition to the amnesty, Ms Bhutto wants the president to give up his power to sack the prime minister.
She also wants the repeal of a law banning anyone from being prime minister for more that two terms. She and political rival Nawaz Sharif have both been premier twice before.
Observers say Gen Musharraf wants a power-sharing agreement with the PPP, the country’s largest party, to give him more popular support. He will also hope for PPP support after the general election in which the ruling party is expected to fare badly, they say.
Source: BBC NEWS | South Asia | Bhutto upbeat over power-sharing
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Musharraf agree on power-sharing accord: official
Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf reached agreement on a national reconciliation accord that paves the way for a power-sharing deal, officials said Thursday.
“They have agreed on the draft and it will be issued by the president tomorrow. Benazir Bhutto has given her assent,” Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid, a close confidant of the president, told AFP.
The reconciliation agreement gives an amnesty for politicians who served in Pakistan between 1988 and 1999, effectively clearing Bhutto of the corruption charges that forced her into exile after her two terms in office.
“The agreement says that there will be an across-the-board indemnity for public office holders between 1988 and 1999,” a senior government official who has seen the draft said on condition of anonymity.
It also says that if Pakistan’s main graft-busting body wants to lodge a case against a politician it must first go through a special parliamentary committee “to avoid allegations of political motivations”, the official said.
Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party has for its part agreed to withdraw a legal petition filed in the Supreme Court that seeks to have Saturday’s presidential election postponed, the official said.
There was no immediate confirmation from Bhutto, who held talks in London with key party leaders on the deal. A party spokesman in Islamabad was unable to confirm that there was a deal.
Officials said the agreement would not apply to ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif, whom Musharraf ousted in a coup in 1999 and who was deported soon after flying back to Pakistan in September.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071004…44IBxg8FBhutto,