Why is Zardari keen to make deals with a so-called dictator that allegedly has limited support, and is on his way out?
Bhutto widower open to Musharraf power share
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Benazir Bhutto’s husband and political successor has said the assassinated prime minister’s party is prepared to share power with President Pervez Musharraf after next week’s elections, but warned his supporters could take to the streets in protest if the ballot is rigged.
Asif Ali Zardari said Mr Musharraf’s future depended on whether the unpopular former general was willing to work with parliament. “If the parliament can get the power, absolute power to the parliament, then we are willing to work with the circumstances and look for a better way out,” he said. “We certainly want to give comfort to the world that we’re not looking for revolutions, we’re looking for evolutions.”
A week before parliamentary elections, Mr Zardari has emerged as the Pakistan People’s Party’s chief campaigner, having assumed leadership of the country’s largest party on the instructions of Ms Bhutto’s will. Though there has been speculation he may seek to become prime minister in the event of a PPP victory, the new “co-chairperson” of the party denied such ambitions. He said he would work outside parliament, in a role similar to India’s Sonia Gandhi, until his son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, completed his studies.
