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Government resumes talks with Benazir in Dubai |
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2/13/2006 12:42:31 PM |
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LAHORE: Government representatives and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto have started fresh negotiations in Dubai for a possible reconciliation between her Pakistan People’s Party and the government, according to PPP sources.
“This time the government has adopted a more compromising posture (in negotiations),” said the sources. “Ms Bhutto was scheduled to arrive in Dubai from America on February 16 but she had to rush back early after receiving a message that two emissaries of President General Pervez Musharraf want to meet her in Dubai.”
Ms Bhutto, according to the insiders, earlier refused to meet the government representatives but accepted the offer after being asked to by an “American friend”.
Ms Bhutto’s spokesman Farhatullah Babar denied the report. “The PPP doesn’t believe in underhand talks,” he said.
The sources said that the two high-ranking members of the military establishment arrived on Dubai on Saturday and met Ms Bhutto on Sunday. They discussed various matters related to national reconciliation including cases against Ms Bhutto and her husband Asif Zardari, the next general elections under an independent election commission and a ‘national government’ before the elections.
“The Isle of Mann judgment that rejected the allegation that Surrey Palace was bought through corruption money and increasing foreign pressure on the government to cobble ties with the PPP have put the government on the back foot against Ms Bhutto,” said government sources.
Ms Bhutto had plans to meet another former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, in London during her brief stay in the UK on returning from the USA, but she got a direct flight to Dubai instead. “If the talks between the PPP and the government are fruitful, she will not meet Mr Sharif in the near future. Otherwise, they will hold a meeting in the UK next week,” said the PPP insiders. Ms Bhutto would leave for UK this week and stay there for another week, they added.
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