LONDON, Sept. 1, 2007

Bhutto Promises Return To Pakistan

Despite Lack Of Deal With Musharraf's Ruling Regime, Exiled Former PM Says She Will Return

  • Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto listens to a reporter's question during a meeting in central London, Thursday Oct. 19, 2006. Pakistan's exiled former premier said Wednesday that Gen. Pervez Musharraf had agreed to step down as army chief, in a move she expected before the next presidential elections.

    Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto listens to a reporter's question during a meeting in central London, Thursday Oct. 19, 2006. Pakistan's exiled former premier said Wednesday that Gen. Pervez Musharraf had agreed to step down as army chief, in a move she expected before the next presidential elections.  (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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(AP)  Former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that power-sharing talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf had stalled, but that she planned to return to the country very soon.

Bhutto told a news conference in London that no agreement had been reached due to opposition from members of the ruling regime to working with her Pakistan People's Party.

However, she said it was important that she end her exile and return home. Her party will announce the date on Sept. 14, she said.

"I will be going back to Pakistan very soon, but the date is going to be announced from the soil of Pakistan," Bhutto said.

She did not give details of what specifically had stalled the talks aimed at shoring up Musharraf's fraught re-election bid and allowing her to return to Pakistan to contest parliamentary elections.

However, she has yet to win a public commitment from Musharraf on two critical points - that he would step down as army chief and give up the power to dismiss the government and parliament.

"We understand that there is severe reaction within the present ruling party to any understanding with the Pakistan People's Party," she said. "Due to that reaction no understanding has been arrived at and we are making our own plans to return to the country."

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by lars008-2009 September 1, 2007 4:43 PM EDT
it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.

non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...

I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair''s bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm

Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20arabia%20pagan

the truth about fascist nazi terrorislam...
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/
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by xzavierbrown September 1, 2007 4:14 PM EDT
this exactly what that primitive section of the planet needs....time to water down this raw and ancient ideology
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