ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto has delayed a trip to Dubai in a mix-up over her passport, her spokesman said on Thursday, denying reports she had been barred from travelling.
Bhutto had planned to leave late Thursday but she turned up at the airport with her old passport which has expired, spokesman Farhatullah Babar told AFP. She will now leave on Friday for the three-day trip to see her children, he said. “She has not been stopped by the government, it is absolutely wrong,” Babar said, adding the government was not involved in the change of programme.
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Bhutto returned to Pakistan from eight years in self-exile on October 18. Some two weeks later she left for Dubai to see her children and ailing mother but cut short the trip and returned home immediately after President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in the country on November 3. |