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Sharif invites Benazir to talk over dinner
ISLAMABAD, July 9: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif invited Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday to a reconciliation working dinner 'and agreed on a peace formula with arch-enemy President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, reports Reuter.
The moves towards ending Pakistan's deepening political crisis came a day after Bhutto asked for fresh elections to be called and threatened to lead tens of thousands of supporters in a march on Islamabad to back her demand.
I would like to invite you to a working dinner on any convenient date as early as possible. Sharif said in a letter to Bhutto.
He was responding to her proposal on Sunday that Pakistan's three main political leaders' meet to try to resolve a political impasse that has resulted from a six-month-old power struggle between the President and the Prime Minister.
Pakistan has been virtually paralysed since Ishaq Khan sacked Sharif tn April on charges of corruption and misrule. only to see the Supreme
Court reinstate him the following month.
Bhutto is demanding a national government, constitutional reforms and fresh elections. She threatened on Monday to lead a protest march on the capital unless Sharif bowed to her ultimatum to announce mid-term elections before Saturday.
A>>.hough I au^y not agree with all your perceptions and suggestions, your letter does provide a basis for a dialogue on the issues facing the nation, Sharif said.
Bhutto has refused to accept any such invitation unless Sharif first agree to her proposals. She is insisting the talks Include the President.
Sharif gave no hint in the letter that he was ready to consider Bhutto's demand for early elections.
Aides say his 32-month-old government is not willing to hold elections until early next year after the President retires in December. The President is empowered to name the caretaker prime minister who would organise the polls. The last elections in 1990 were marred by charges of vote-rigging. The next are due in 1995.
Western diplomats warn that the personal hatred between Sharif and Bhutto — political rivals since she was elected as Prime Minister in 1988 — is so deep that reconciliation may now be impossible.
Several previous attempts at reconciliation, including talks last month, broke down in bitter disagreement.
Sharif is to meet Ishaq Khan on Saturday following their agreement on a seven point peace formula hammered out by a group of fundamentalist Muslim clerics and politicians who have shuttled between the two leaders this week, an aide to the Prime Minister said.
Under the formula, both will try to rebuild confidence con suit each other and hah the flood of blistering counter al tacks issued by their aides