Ex-Premier Bhutto Supports Musharraf

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said she supported the decision of President Pervez Musharraf to cooperate with the United States in hunting down Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the attacks earlier this month on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and his associates.

Speaking from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she is in voluntary exile, Bhutto also told CNN television interviewer Larry King that she hoped Pakistan’s military ruler would “reach out to myself and to other political dissidents to create the kind of unity that is needed for a stable Pakistan to back the battle against international terrorism.”

Bhutto said her political party, one of 16 in the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, had “kept away from the streets because we support” Musharraf’s pledge to help bring the Saudi Arabian-born bin Laden to justice.