Click to play videoIslamabad: Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto have reportedly reached a deal which would allow the exiled leader to return the country.
The Daily Times newspaper reports that according to the deal Bhutto’s Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would support Musharraf’s re-election and in return the National Accountability Bureau would drop corruption cases against her.
PPP members will support Musharraf's re-election by the assemblies and the bureau would drop cases against Bhutto and her spouse Asif Ali Zardari in Swiss courts.
According to the report, the emissaries of the two leaders gave the finalised draft of the deal on Sunday night after four rounds of talks held in Dubai and Islamabad in less than a week.
A close relative of Benazir is said to be brokering the deal on her behalf, while a six-member team, headed by Tariq Aziz, National Security Council Secretary and top aide of the President, represented Musharraf at the talks.
Bhutto's close associate and PPP leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim was also involved in the talks, it said. During the fresh round of talks in Dubai last Friday and Saturday, the president's uniform that is his continuation as Army Chief remained the bone of contention.
Najam Sethi, editor of Friday Times, described the deal as a “relationship of convenience”. The deal " will allow Bhutto to return to Pakistan and contest elections without harassment. Cases against her would be put on a shelf--they will not be withdrawn but they will not be pressed. The interim administration will be formed on her approval. In return she will not oppose the President's re-election,” he told CNN-IBN.
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