1. I really doubt there would be a deal.
She's also not been in jail since she's not returned since her government was dissolved by President Leghari.
Dear AA,
Laughing all the way to the bank. My Pakistani friends in London had predicted this deal nearly three months ago but you and off course the very wise Dimension did not give it much credence.
Best Regards
Reconciliation ordinance delivers clean chit -DAWN - Top Stories; October 06, 2007
Reconciliation ordinance delivers clean chit
By Ahmed Hassan
ISLAMABAD, Oct 5:
President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday promulgated the National Reconciliation Ordinance 2007 after a painstaking process of negotiations between government teams and the Peoples Party chairperson in order to confer legitimacy on the presidential elections being held on Saturday.
The federal cabinet earlier approved the ordinance after a special meeting at the Prime Ministers secretariat.
The ordinance, which was given the final shape on Thursday evening after Benazir Bhuttos approval, had been put on hold pending a verdict on the stay petition against the election.
The main aim of the ordinance evidently is to give immediate relief to the PPP chairperson. She will get indemnity in all cases that were registered against her by the Nawaz Sharif government. Altaf Hussain, the Muttahida Qaumi Movements chief, and Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao are expected to be among the other beneficiaries.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, the ruling PMLs secretary-general, Mushahid Hussain Sayed, said only those cases would be withdrawn that were registered between Jan 1, 1986, and Oct 12, 1999, and in which no conviction was made.
An amendment in a 1999 ordinance on accountability has voided orders or judgments passed by courts in absentia.
Another amendment stipulates that all cases that were registered by the National Accountability Bureau in or outside Pakistan against holders of public offices during the period in question would be deemed to have been withdrawn. Furthermore, such persons shall not be liable to any action in future as well for acts done in good faith before the said date.
Yet another amendment in the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1898 (Act V, Section 494) calls for withdrawal of cases registered between Jan 1, 1986, and Oct 12, 1999, by the federal or a provincial government against any person, including an absconding accused, found to have been framed for political reasons. The law will be applicable to only those cases in which no court has given a judgment.
The federal and provincial governments will constitute review boards to examine the entire record of a case in order to determine its merits or otherwise for withdrawal.