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...Sharif's return has emerged as a wild-card challenge to Musharraf's increasingly unstable political equilibrium. A proposal for Musharraf to share power with Benazir Bhutto, another exiled former Prime Minister, had been intended to restore confidence in the general's rule and ensure him another presidential term when he faces reelection by a parliamentary assembly next month. The proposed deal involved Musharraf allowing Bhutto to return home and run for Prime Minister early next year in exchange for the backing of her powerful Pakistani People's Party (PPP) for his presidential ambitions. In exchange, Bhutto would be allowed...
...Polls in Coalition with Benazir Bhutto...
...until he steps down from his role as head of the military - something he is showing no sign of doing. (Musharraf won a one-term waiver of this law five years ago, but that expires in November). The President has also been speaking with another exiled former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto - a fierce rival of Sharif - about sharing power after the election. Such a deal would win him more parliamentary support, but Bhutto faces outstanding corruption charges in Pakistan that the Supreme Court, rather than Musharraf, would have to drop to allow her to return...
...brink of collapse and amidst allegations of corruption and mismanagement. Although support for the former Prime Minister remained lackluster a few months ago, since news broke late last month of a possible Bhutto-Musharraf union, support for Bhutto and her party has dropped, while Sharif's has risen. "Benazir was leading the polls until she met Musharraf," says Ahsan Iqbal, Secretary of Information for Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League?Nawaz party. "We have been beneficiaries of the situation; PML-N stock has been bullish...
...development could spell trouble for Washington, which has strongly backed Musharraf since 9/11, and has lately supported the idea of an alliance between him and Benazir Bhutto as widening the base of a moderate center. Sharif's return would give Pakistanis angry with Musharraf an easy way to register a protest against him and his foreign backers. "They [the U.S.] can't gain anything by salvaging a dictator; there is no credible political party that supports Musharraf," says the PML-N's Iqbal. Or as Iftikhar Gilani, Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court and former Law Minister under Bhutto puts...