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Benazir Bhutto sets price of Musharraf deal By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad Last Updated: 1:51am BST 30/07/2007 Pakistan's former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, said yesterday that President Pervez Musharraf would have to resign as military chief before any power-sharing agreement could be reached. Talks were held between Gen Musharraf and Ms Bhutto, who lives in self-imposed exile, in Abu Dhabi on Friday. Benazir Bhutto insists President Musharraf resign as military chief "We do not accept President Musharraf in uniform," Ms Bhutto told a Pakistani television broadcaster. "Our stand is that, and I stick to my stand." Western diplomats hope that...

ABU DHAHBI: Meeting between President General Pervez Musharraf and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto which held Friday ended with deadlock over uniform issue, the sources said. Benazir was offered that an Article in the constitution regarding bar that no political leader could become Prime Minister for three times would be amended in return for PPP support to General Pervez Musharraf in his reelection as president in uniform but Benazir declined to compromise on uniform, the sources added. It is confirmed that Musharraf-Benazir meeting held here, said a senor analyst of Geo Television Network Dr. Shahid Masood. However, the government...

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WASHINGTON : Presidential hopeful and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry today announced he has offered Johnny Depp first refusal of the coveted VP spot in his Democratic bid for the White House. I first saw Johnny in that scissors movie, Kerry told reporters, and I’ve wanted to run with him ever since. A source close to the Kerry campaign stated that Kerry believes Depp’s charm, charisma and intense global popularity is just the thing needed to sway voter support of post-teen females, twenty-something housewives, every woman in middle-aged America and that ‘certain section of guys’ towards the Democratic ticket in November....