Bhutto says could work with Musharraf, admits risks

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Bhutto says could work with Musharraf, admits risks
Sun Aug 5, 2007 3:53PM EDT

WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Former Pakistan prime minister
Benazir Bhutto said on Sunday she could work with the country's
president Pervez Musharraf under the right circumstances,
furthering speculation that the two opposing figures could forge
a power-sharing pact.

"There would need to be a balance between the powers of the
presidency and the powers of the parliament," the self-exiled
Bhutto said on "CNN's Late Edition" television program.

However Bhutto, leader of the country's largest opposition party,
the Pakistan People's Party, said an alliance does carry risk and
pointed to "independent surveys" that say two-thirds of Pakistanis
are unhappy with Musharraf.

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The military leader's government is said to have reached out to
Bhutto to bolster Musharraf's prospects in elections expected in
December or January. Analysts have said he will have trouble
holding onto power without Bhutto's support.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN05334873

[acmavm]

1. And he doesn't have any chance of holding on to power if we attack

Pakistan to go after anybody. Mullah Omah, bin Laden, anybody.

We need to get out of Iraq, concentrate on Afganistan, and get NATO and the UN to help us get bin Laden.