Musharaff plays a gamble for Presidency
MIL/Agencies, Sep 19, 2007.
Islamabad, Pakistan: September 19, 2007 – Benazir Bhutto, exiled former two time Prime Minister of Pakistan, said on Tuesday that she would rather like to go along with the plan by which Musharraf could surely be re-elected as President.
"The Pakistan People's Party wants to support General Musharraf if he takes the country towards democracy but we do not want to bail out military dictatorship.”
As per her interview to Reuters, the two leaders continue to play a brinkmanship game after months negotiating over a possible post-election power-sharing arrangement, though Bhutto has already made plans to end more than eight years of exile by returning to Karachi on Oct. 18.
Though Musharraf seems reconciled to meeting a constitutional obligation to step down as army chief by the year-end, he will be choosing his own successor at general headquarters in Rawalpindi. He feels that Pakistani leaders have often mistook in appointing army chiefs whom they thought they could count on.
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