Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday said that the opposition leaders in exile would not return before elections, a local Pakistani newspaper DAWN reported Tuesday.
Musharraf ruled out electoral adjustments with any party and reiterated that the existing assemblies would reelect him as President. He also said that the leaders of opposition parties in exile would not return before elections.
Musharraf made the remarks when addressing legislators and nazims belonging to the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and People's Party Patriots at the Chief Minister's House in Karachi, a southern Pakistani port city on Monday.
According to sources, the president sidestepped the issue of his uniform and said he would talk about it after the elections, without specifying if he was referring to the presidential or general elections, DAWN reported.
He emphasized that the present assemblies would not be dissolved before the expiry of their terms and said that the ruling PML, the Functional League and Muttahida Quami Movement were electoral allies and urged them to muster people's support.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Monday that Musharraf did not strike any deal with People's Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto who once served two non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister in the country in a meeting, which was alleged to be held at the end of July when Musharraf paid a visit to United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Aziz said that there would be no alliance with PPP in the next general elections and the presidential elections would be held from September 15 to October 15.
Currently Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, who was also once Pakistani Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, live in the United Kingdom in exile. Both of them have expressed their willingness to return to Pakistan before the elections.
Source: Xinhua
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