ISLAMABAD: In a bid to clear confusion over reports of a deal between her party and President Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has told a confidant of deposed Premier Nawaz Sharif that there was no effort on her part to reach a political understanding with the General.
Differences between the two former Prime Ministers over reports of the deal were sorted out after Bhutto spoke to Sharif's close associate and PML-N Senator Ishaq Dar over phone in Dubai, a media report here said.
She assured Dar that her party would not strike any deal with the Musharraf regime and media reports in this regard were untrue and a disinformation campaign by the government.
Bhutto, who lives in Dubai, contacted Dar after receiving information that the PML-N leadership was perturbed over reports of a deal between her Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Musharraf, particularly after publication of her interview in a British daily which had said that Bhutto wanted a deal with the President.
Also, a recent 'Daily Times' report said that emissaries of Musharraf and Bhutto have finalised a draft of a deal, under which PPP wilfirst support the President's re-election by the present assemblies, and later endorse the President in assemblies after elections. In return, National Accountability Bureau would stop pursuing corruption cases against Bhutto and her spouse Asif Ali Zardari in Swiss courts.
Bhutto has, however, clarified her position and assured Dar that the PPP was ommitted to every word of the Charter of Democracy signed by her and Sharif in London last year. She told the PML-N leader not to believe any report on the issue, 'Dawn' daily quoted Dar as saying.
