By IANS
Dubai : While former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutt headed back to Pakistan from Dubai, another former premier Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan could descend into chaos due to the imposition of emergency.
As soon as a state of emergency was announced, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chief Bhutto’s husband Asif Ali Zardari told Indian television channels that she was flying back later Saturday night. According to early reports, she has reached Karachi.
Earlier in the day, she was boarding a plane when she learnt about the emergency order and decided to wait.
“We condemn the emergency from all democratic forces of Pakistan,” said Zardari, echoing his wife’s statement after the emergency order.
Meanwhile, Sharif, who had been deported from Islamabad airport when he had tried to make a return from his exile in Saudi Arabia, said this was the “gravest situation being faced by the country in the last 60 years”.
He told the TV channels that the feared that Pakistan was “heading towards chaos”. Despite the ‘deal’ that Bhutto had done with Musharraf to facilitate her return, Sharif said that “all political forces will have to sit down” to decide the next steps.
Sharif said that he had never been “so upset, so disappointed and so disillusioned” during his political career.
He also called upon the western countries, including the US, to take a “very clear cut” position on the situation in Pakistan.