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Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has denied reports of her meeting with deposed premier Nawaz Sharif in Jeddah early this week, a media report said on Sunday.
"Let people speculate about it, but no meeting has taken place with Nawaz Sharif," Bhutto, the chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party, told a party leader over phone from Dubai on Sunday night, The Nation daily reported.
The paper, however, did not identify the PPP leader.
Bhutto reportedly said that Musharraf's wife Sehba had performed Umra at Mecca. "If I held a meeting with Nawaz Sharif and [his wife] Kulsoom Nawaz, then I could meet the wife of General Musharraf as well, who was also there," she added.
PPP sources said Bhutto denied meeting Sharif as the Saudi government had banned him from taking part in politics.
It was part of the deal between the Pakistan government and the Saudi royal family under which Sharif, who was sentenced for life for preventing Musharraf's plane from landing on October 12, 1999, was pardoned and allowed to go on exile.
In her telephonic conversation with the PPP leader, Bhutto also said she could contest the October polls despite Musharraf's executive order barring anyone seeking a third term as prime minister, the paper reported.
"I can contest election for national assembly and it does not make any difference that the military ruler has issued an order to block ways of those politicians who have assumed prime minister's slot two times," she said.
Referring to Musharraf's order, Bhutto said, "It is just a start and the nation will see many dictatorial orders in this connection in the near future."
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