New Delhi: As Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf battles to contain the protests over the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary, former Pakistani prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif have decided to meet in London.
The meeting will discuss the ongoing crisis in Pakistan and chalk out the Opposition strategy.
The Pakistan People's Party spokesman confirmed that Bhutto will travel from Washington to London to meet Sharif on Thursday.
The two would finalise a strategy in the light of increasing protests against the Chaudhary’s suspension.
In December last year, Musharraf had said that Bhutto and Sharif will not be allowed to contest elections in the country that are likely to be held between November 2007 and January 2008.
"If they come to Pakistan, Nawaz will be sent on next flight back out and Benazir will have to stand trial... Firstly, one of them is convicted. The other also is convicted. Both of them are convicted actually. One of them has gone out for 10 years for an agreement, by himself. And the other is out since...," Musharraf was quoted as saying by agencies.
On March 10, a local court in Pakistan had issued non-bailable arrest warrants against Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari in assets declaration case for the fourth time.
The case against the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leaders is being tried by the district and sessions court on a petition filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which had claimed that Bhutto and Zardari had made false assets declaration before the Election Commission of Pakistan during the general elections in 1993.
(With agency inputs)
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