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This is an archive article published on January 30, 2008

Zardari not ruling out deal with Musharraf

PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has not ruled out the possibility...

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PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has not ruled out the possibility of a power-sharing deal with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in future, but at the same time said the emotional wounds caused by his wife Benazir Bhutto’s death were “too deep” to think of such an arrangement.

Asked if he would agree to any power-sharing deal with Musharraf, Zardari told Boss magazine: “It’s too early and our wounds are too deep to think of having any working relationship with PML-Q or President Pervez Musharraf.”

Zardari also said he had to wait with Bhutto’s body for over an hour at the Mohenjodaro airport without any police guards or security.

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“They (authorities) asked me to arrive at Karachi. I forced myself on them by saying that my children and I would like to go with her in her final journey,” Zardari said, referring to his return to Pakistan from Dubai after Bhutto was assassinated on December 27.

“I even inquired whether they had night landing facility at Bhutto’s ancestral village of Naudero in Sindh. They told me ‘yes’, but when we reached Sukkur, they put us in a helicopter that took us to Mohenjodaro,” Zardari told the magazine.

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