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| Bhutto hopes to return to Pak by mid-October | | | August 13 2007
New Delhi: Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto has said that she hopes to return home by mid-October. She also said that she might ally with President Pervez Musharraf.
Bhutto, who's been exile for the last eight years, said she has had a "confidential understanding" with Musharraf on her return.
She confirmed that she's been negotiating this with the military government in Pakistan for a long time.
Bhutto said she's also discussed election reforms with Musharraf.
"I would like to tell you about that meeting but both sides say there is no meeting. So this makes it a little bit difficult but I can tell you that we have been having negotiations for a long period of time. We have discussed the uniform issue and both sides have reached a confidential understanding on it. We have discussed my return issue and we've also reached a confidential understanding on that, Bhutto said.
Talking about the power sharing between Prime Minister and President Bhutto said, “We've talked about the balance of power between the president and the prime minister and that is still to be fine tuned. We've talked about the implementation of opposition demands for fair elections, we're still awaiting those to be implemented and we've also talked about the need to have an upfront confidence building measure, which could be through indemnity or lifting of the ban on a twice elected prime minister before we say or trigger an agreement."
"I would like to go back to Pakistan sooner rather than later but General Musharraf still is opposed to my return to Pakistan.”
"I am thinking between September to December. And I'm expecting the general elections to be called some time in October or November but if I had my little Aladdin's lamp then I would ask the genie to get me there by Eid, which falls in October, “ she added.
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