 President General Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto feared the polls set for January because she was corrupt and unpopular.
| "That's why I instituted the state of emergency. She'll still still be corrupt, but she'll be much more popular after just a few days." |
Musharraf told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in an interview that Bhutto was “the darling of the West” but that she would not like to go into an election because, according to him the Pakistan’s People’s Party would not win the elections. “It is she actually who may not be wanting elections in Pakistan and it is she who may want to go on to the agitational mode because her party is not in a state to win at all,” he said. “Therefore I will certainly go for the election despite of any agitation by her.” He blamed Bhutto, who has called for him to relinquish power, for ruining chances of a deal which would see her serving as prime minister under his presidency, Reuters reported. “She disturbed the entire environment. She comes on a total confrontationalist approach,” Musharraf said of Bhutto, who returned from eight years of self exile last month. |
