ISLAMABAD: Top emissaries of President General Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto have finalised a draft of a deal between their bosses, Daily Times has learnt.
Under the deal, sources said, the Pakistan People's Party will first support the re-election of the president by the present assemblies, and later endorse the president in the assemblies after the general elections. In return, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) would stop pursuing corruption cases against Benazir and Asif Ali Zardari in Swiss courts.
The sources said the emissaries of the president and PPP chairwoman gave finalised the draft of the deal on Sunday night after four rounds of talks held in Dubai and Islamabad in less than a week. A close relative of Benazir is said to be brokering the deal on her behalf. A six-member team, headed by National Security Council Secretary and top aide of the president Tariq Aziz, is representing the government in the talks with Benazir's emissaries, who are led by PPP Parliamentarians Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim. The identities of the other members of the government team are not known.
The sources said during the fresh round of talks in Dubai last Friday and Saturday, the president's uniform remained the bone of contention. Sources, however, said that the president's team assured Benazir of "flexibility" on the issue if she did the same.
Before leaving for Dubai, the government team met with Benazir's emissaries at Fahim's farmhouse in Chak Shahzad in Islamabad, the sources said.
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