Bhutto says US diplomat asked her if she could work with Musharraf

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Detained opposition leader Benazir Bhutto told The AP on Thursday that Washington is concerned about a power-vacuum in Pakistan if President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is forced to leave office, but said she told a visiting US diplomat that she could not work with the general. Bhutto made the comment in a telephone interview from the home in Lahore where she is under house arrest, shortly after a visit from Bryan Hunt, the US consul general in the eastern Pakistani city. "He came to find out whether I could work with Gen. Musharraf, and I told him that it was very difficult to work with someone who instead of taking us toward democracy took us back toward military dictatorship," she said.