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Islamabad
17 October 2007
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says her arrival in Pakistan on Thursday will mark the country's transition from dictatorship to democracy. In a televised address from Dubai carried live on major Pakistani news channels, Ms. Bhutto also denied reaching a power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad.
Speaking in Dubai, former Prime Minister Bhutto said she expects more than one-million people to greet her when she arrives in Karachi despite threats of attacks from Islamic militants1.
"My return heralds2 for the people of Pakistan, the turn in the wheel from dictatorship to democracy, from exploitation to empowerment, from violence to peace," she said.
In Karachi, police are sealing off roads and preparing bomb squads3 for Ms. Bhutto's arrival Thursday.
At a news conference in Dubai, Ms. Bhutto said any attacker would regret trying to assassinate4 her, because it would violate the tenets of Islam.
Politicians with fundamentalist Muslim parties have warned that Ms. Bhutto's arrival could damage efforts to end fighting in tribal5 areas. She has pledged to support President Musharraf's campaign against militants.
Ms. Bhutto denied allegations that her Pakistan People's Party negotiated a secret power-sharing deal with President Musharraf. His government has agreed to drop corruption6 charges against her, and many Pakistanis believe the PPP agreed in return not to boycott7 Mr. Musharraf's presidential election.
"I would like to clarify that as far as the Pakistan People's Party is concerned, we have not done any deal," she said.
She said her party had conducted what she called "negotiations8" for the transition to democracy. Mr. Musharraf came to power in 1999 in a military coup9 and he remains10 head of the army, as well as president.
The Supreme11 Court is considering legal challenges to the constitutionality of her amnesty deal.
In a separate case challenging the recent deportation12 of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, justices ordered the head of the immigration agency to explain who was involved in Mr. Sharif's expulsion.
General Musharraf ousted13 Mr. Sharif in 1999 and forced him into exile. Last month, he tried to return, but government officials immediately sent him back out of the country.
1 militants | |
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 ) | |
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2 heralds | |
n.使者( herald的名词复数 );预报者;预兆;传令官v.预示( herald的第三人称单数 );宣布(好或重要) | |
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n.(军队中的)班( squad的名词复数 );(暗杀)小组;体育运动的运动(代表)队;(对付某类犯罪活动的)警察队伍 | |
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4 assassinate | |
vt.暗杀,行刺,中伤 | |
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5 tribal | |
adj.部族的,种族的 | |
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6 corruption | |
n.腐败,堕落,贪污 | |
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7 boycott | |
n./v.(联合)抵制,拒绝参与 | |
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8 negotiations | |
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过 | |
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9 coup | |
n.政变;突然而成功的行动 | |
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10 remains | |
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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11 supreme | |
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的 | |
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12 deportation | |
n.驱逐,放逐 | |
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13 ousted | |
驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺 | |
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