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ReutersPakistan's Musharraf may quit army for votes: paperTue Aug 28, 2007 6:54AM EDT
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's embattled President
Pervez Musharraf may quit as army chief in return for
support from political parties to re-elect him for another
term, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The offer is being discussed by Musharraf's aides with self-
exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in London as part
of a power-sharing pact, the Dawn newspaper said.
Musharraf, who has seen his popularity plummet in recent
months, wants to get re-elected president for another five
years between mid-September and mid-October, before his
term as army chief expires at the end of the year.
Under his plan, a general election will then be held at the
end of the year or early next year.
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DAWNAugust 28, 2007 Tuesday Sha’aban 14, 1428
Musharraf may trade army post for re-electionBy M. Ziauddin
LONDON, Aug 27: President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s team of
emissaries, led by ISI chief Lt Gen Ashfaq Kiani, and PPP
Chairperson Benazir Bhutto are understood to have discussed,
at a ‘final meeting’ here on Monday, the possibilities of
convening an all-party conference for achieving a ‘grand
national reconciliation’.
According to sources, President Musharraf has offered to doff
the uniform even before the presidential elections. But in the
trade-off, he wants all political parties to agree to elect him
president for the next five years after the new assemblies come
into being following the next general election.
He, however, is said to want the powers of the office of the
president to remain untouched _ at least up to the end of his
new term.
According to the sources, the package of offers being discussed
at the meeting includes formation of a national government,
which would then appoint a chief election commissioner by
consensus.
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