By Xinhua
Islamabad : Benazir Bhutto arrived in the capital Friday for a meeting with senior leaders of her Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) about the upcoming general elections, local TV channels reported.
Bhutto was presiding over a PPP central committee meeting to chalk out a strategy for the general elections, the Dawn News TV channel reported.
The PPP has allowed its candidates to file their nomination papers in their respective constituencies for the elections of national and provincial assemblies, though other opposition parties have decided to boycott the polls and have urged her to join the boycott.
Bhutto is expected to attend a meeting of major opposition parties to decide on whether PPP will join the boycott.
Bhutto returned to Pakistan from eight years of self-imposed exile on Oct 18, with an explosion taking place shortly after as her supporters gathered in a procession in Karachi, killing at least 140.
Pakistani authorities relaxed emergency to some extent lately, releasing more than 5,000 out of the 6,000 detained since the imposition of emergency Nov 3, mainly lawyers and political workers.
Procedures of the national and provincial assembly elections scheduled on Jan 8 were going on, with dozens of nomination papers issued.