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| India-Pakistan |
| PPP negotiating with PML-Q... |
| 2002-11-10 |
| The government is trying to broker a coalition involving its major opposition party in a deal that could break a month-long impasse over the formation of a new government, political sources said here on Saturday. Sources said the regime had called for an alliance between the pro-government PML-Q and the party of former premier Benazir Bhutto, the PPP. That's something Perv should have been working toward since last March, but he couldn't stand the odor from Benazir's party... Although the government has kept silent, official sources say an offer has been extended to the PPP leadership under which Benazir's jailed husband, Asif Ali Zardari, would be freed in return for agreeing to a coalition. That must break Perv's heart, too... According to a PPP legislator, many of the party's 81 members elected to the National Assembly are in favour of abandoning pre-election acrimony and uniting with the PML-Q, which won 103 seats in the polls. "A sizable number of the PPP's MNAs want to be in the government," PPP legislator-elect Faisal Saleh Hayat told AFP. "There is no harm in sitting in the government. I have warned Benazir Bhutto that if we do not follow this line, there will be division in the party." If her hubby's let out of jug, Benazir might go for it... Asif, in an interview with AFP on Friday, acknowledged there were ongoing negotiations between the PPP and Musharraf's regime, but denied his release from jail - where he has been held since 1996 on corruption and criminal charges - was being used as a bargaining chip. "No, no! Certainly not! That would be hypocritical, wouldn't it? He'll be released for, ummmm... other reasons." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |