Benazir to celebrate Eid with family in Dubai

DUBAI: Hours after reaching a deal with the Pakistan government which gave her amnesty, former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto arrived in Dubai along with her husband to spend the coming Eid holidays with family.

Her arrival here on Friday along with Asif Ali Zardari also quashed rumours about their strained relations, the Gulf News reported.
   
"Bhutto and Zardari will celebrate Eid Al Fitr together with their three children - Asfa, Bilawal and Bakhtawar - in Dubai," the paper quoted a close friend of family as saying.
   
"She needs a break after hectic travel and political meetings. The family will stay together especially at a time when Bhutto is preparing to return to Pakistan to launch afresh a political struggle for democracy," he said.
    
Rumours about Bhutto-Zardari separation were rife early this year after a female Pakistani journalist reported the matter in an Indian magazine.
   
A spokesperson of the Pakistan People Party, which Bhutto heads, had rejected the reports about their split, terming them 'baseless propaganda' against the PPP and its leaders.
   
While Bhutto will return to Karachi on October 18 as per plan after more than eight years in self-exile, Zardari will stay back. "He will also go back but after some time," said a party source.
   
Zardari spent 11 years in Jail - from 1990 to 1993 and from November 1996 to November 2004 - for corruption and drug charges.