Former prime minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said that the best exit route for the Musharraf regime is to adopt the ARD demand that a national government be formed to hold fair and free elections with election reforms as suggested by the opposition.
She was addressing a large gathering of Pakistani community in Birmingham, UK, on Sunday.
Benazir said that it has become vital to save the federation from disintegration, terrorism and poverty and this could be done through holding free, fair and transparent elections under an impartial and independent Election Commission.
She asked the Chief Election Commission (CEC) to take notice of pre-rigging efforts of the government party including the campaign by General Musharraf in favour of the King's Party.
Meanwhile, Benazir Bhutto has welcomed the initiative of retired diplomats, civil servants, intelligence chiefs and military officers in asking General Musharraf to separate the two offices of the President of Pakistan and the Chief of Army Staff and build national reconciliation.
In a statement on Sunday, she said the letter written by the a cross section of retired officials to General Musharraf actually endorsed what the democratic forces in the country, indeed the whole nation, had been demanding for a long time as critical for the integrity of the country.