PPP mulls BB’s return timeline

LONDON—The meeting of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) federal executive committee continues to consider important issues including PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s return to Pakistan.
Meanwhile, PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto said that negotiations with the Government on the power sharing were still on but agreement has yet to be reached. She was talking to the media persons on her arrival outside the residence of party leader Rahman Malik in Central London to chair the meeting of the party’s central executive committee this afternoon.
She said the meeting will discuss in details the political situation in Pakistan and as well as decide her date to return home. She was also expected to apprise the members of the CEC about the on-going negotiations with the Government and take them into confidence. Pakistan is his country and he has been allowed to return home by the Supreme Court,” she added.
Chairperson, Pakistan PeoplesParty Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto said on Friday that negotiations with the Government on the power-sharing were still on but agreement has yet to be reached. She was talking to the media persons on her arrivaloutside the residence of party leader Rahman Malik inCentral London to chair the meeting of the party’scentral executive committee this afternoon.
She said the meeting will discuss in details thepolitical situation in Pakistan and as well as decideher date to return home. She was also expected toapprise the members of the CEC about the on-goingnegotiations with the Government and take them intoconfidence. Commenting on the decision of the former PrimeMinister Nawaz Sharif to return to Pakistan on September 10, she said she welcomes his decision.” Pakistan is his country and he has been allowed to return home by the Supreme Court,” she added.
Chairperson, Pakistan People’s Party Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto called on the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband at the Foreign and Commonwealth office here on Friday and their discussion centred on the political situation in Pakistan. “They discussed the political situation in Pakistan including the forthcoming presidential election as well as the national elections during their 45 minutes meeting,” said an FCO official.
Ms.Bhutto on her part apprised the Foreign Secretary about her discussion with the Pakistan Governmentinterlocutors on the possible power sharing formula. Former Prime Minister and Chairperson of PPPP Benazir Bhutto has strongly condemned over the publication of a derogatory cartoon in a Swedish newspaper that is offensive to the sensibilities of Muslims and emphasized the need for respecting the faith and sensibilities of all religions and faiths.
The cartoon was published in a Swedish daily Nerikes Allehanda on August 19 after art galleries in Sweden declined to display it. In a statement issued here on Friday the former Prime Minister said that it was most irresponsible and deplorable that some publications in the west published cartoons and caricatures blatantly disregarding the religious sentiments of the Muslims.
Such thoughtlessness and absence of sensitivity to the Muslims is in sharp contrast to the respect normally shown to followers of other religions and groups, Benazir Bhutto said.
“If the tendency was not curbed it could ignite protests in Muslim countries and also among Europe’s Muslim population and undermine religious harmony and tolerance that is needed most by the world today”.