Musharraf says he is in touch with Zardari

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Posted online: Tuesday , March 18, 2008 at 02:26:33
Updated: Tuesday , March 18, 2008 at 02:48:32

Islamabad, March 18: President Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, is in touch with him, even as the incoming PPP-led coalition vowed to end his “dictatorship”.

Musharraf told a delegation of the PML-Q led by former premier Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi about his contacts with Zardari during a meeting at the President’s House late on Sunday night, party sources told the Daily Times on Tuesday.

The sources said the PML-Q leaders told the President about “the problems they expected in future” once the PPP formed government with its allies, including former premier Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N, the Awami National Party and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.

Musharraf assured the leaders of the PML-Q, which was defeated in the February 18 general election, that the “new government would not trouble them”, the report said.

Zardari and his slain wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, had returned to Pakistan after Musharraf issued a controversial law in October to drop graft cases against them and other PPP leaders. The move came after months of secret parleys between the aides of Bhutto and Musharraf.

However, Bhutto snapped all contacts with Musharraf shortly after he imposed emergency in November last year.

“This is the last day of dictatorship,” Zardari told reporters after a joint parliamentary meeting of the PPP and its allies yesterday after newly elected MPs were sworn-in during the first session of the new Parliament.

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