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Pakistan’s Bhutto leaves for Dubai
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto left for Dubai early Friday to see her children, her spokesman said, taking time out from campaigning for January 8 elections. Bhutto had planned to leave late Thursday, but the trip was delayed in a mix-up over her passport, spokesman Farhatullah Babar told AFP. Babar said she had to return from the airport because she was carrying her old passport which had expired.** “She left this morning,” he said, adding that she would stay in Dubai for three or four days.**
Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan from eight years in self-exile on October 18, is leading her opposition party into the January 8 general elections, but has said she may boycott the vote if it is not free and fair. Her October homecoming parade in the southern city of Karachi was targeted by a suicide bombing that killed 139 people. Two weeks later she left for Dubai to see her children and ailing mother, but returned home almost immediately after President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency here on November 3. Musharraf has promised to lift emergency rule on December 16.