Its raining women in Pakistan politics!

Pakistans President General Pervez Musharraf will not have one, but two genuine women politicians and a couple of wannabe politicians like his wife Sehba Musharraf and Nawaz Sharifs wife Kulsoom to deal with in the run-up to the forthcoming general elections.

Lahore, Sept.18 : Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf will not have one, but two genuine women politicians and a couple of wannabe politicians like his wife Sehba Musharraf and Nawaz Sharif's wife Kulsoom to deal with in the run-up to the forthcoming general elections.

Former Premier Benazir Bhutto is already negotiating with Musharraf for her return to Pakistan after nearly nine years of self-exile, and now her estranged sister-in-law and Pakistan People's Party-Shaheed Bhutto Chairwoman Ghinva Bhutto has said that she will reinterpret the slogan 'all power to the people'.

Sehba Musharraf is being touted as an alternative presidential candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League (Quami) should the country's Supreme Court rule against her husband's chances of becoming Pakistan's President for a second time while in uniform.

Nawaz Sharif's wife -- Kulsoom -- is reportedly making noises about returning to Pakistan after the fasting month of Ramadan to revive the Sharifs' political fortunes seven years after going into exile.

The Government, it seems, does not have a problem with her returning to Pakistan, but whether she will be allowed to contest the general elections is still a matter of conjecture.

Talking to reporters here on Monday, Ghinva said that the military establishment should be relegated to guarding the nation's borders, and called for the structure of governance in Pakistan to be changed through a free and fair exercise of the will of the people.

The Daily Times quoted her as saying that "Pakistan needs a new system of justice, administration and policing, and a new economic order."

"Existing laws should be changed to assign the task of governance to people's committees instead of the offices of the state as it currently stands," she added.

Commenting on the proposed deal between Benazir Bhutto and Musharraf, she said it would not serve the cause of democracy, and warned that the political process in the country could be derailed by it.

On Benazir's exile, Ghinva said the former premier was forced to live outside Pakistan as she had not served the people of the nation, who had now lost faith in her.

She said no party had presented any future vision on how they would control social evils such as inflation and the breakdown in law and order. It is up to the people not to elect those who do not have any interest in resolving their problems, she said.

Ghinva said her party wanted to complete Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's mission as voters were living in 21st century but rulers were still trying to push them back to the 18th century.

She said her party would not enter into alliances with any of the political parties because, unlike her party, none of them were anti-imperialist, and supported decentralisation and provincial autonomy.

ANI