Former Pakistani PMs to meet in London: report

Pakistan's former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Mian Nawaz Sharif are scheduled to meet in London on Thursday, with an open agenda for the talks, Dawn newspaper reported Thursday.

The two could discuss issues including the political situation in Pakistan and steps needed to restore the 1973 constitution, said People's Party Parliamentarians Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim on Wednesday, quoted by the newspaper.

Benazir and Sharif, who respectively served two terms of premiership from late 1980s to 1990s, are living as exiles mostly in Saudi Arabia.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who came to power in 1999 after a bloodless coup on May 11, 2005, has declared that exiled political leaders, including Bhutto and Nawaz, would not be allowed to come back or participate in the general elections scheduled for 2007.

Source: Xinhua