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Bhutto planning to return to Pak before 2007 polls
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said she is planning to return to her country from self-imposed exile prior to the 2007 elections with a view to restoring democracy.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said she is planning to return to her country from self-imposed exile prior to the 2007 elections with a view to restoring democracy.
Bhutto also slammed President Pervez Musharraf for trying to undermine her cause by putting out "red notices" of the Interpol and with a view to embarrassing her on her visit to Washington.
"If General Musharraf spent as much time and energy on getting Osama bin Laden as he does on getting me, we might actually catch the man," Bhutto told CNN's Late Edition.
Bhutto said in the interview that she "must go back to help Pakistan's democratisation process" before the next general election.
"I don't want the moderates squeezed out," Bhutto said, and having the only alternative in the country between the Musharraf dictatorship and the religious fundamentalists.
Pakistan and the Bush administration have gone through some difficult period in the recent past as a result of the American air strike in Damadola on January 13 leaving several civilians dead.
Bhutto sees that problem as one of Islamabad failing to have government rule in those tribal regions. If re-elected she would restore government rule there.
