Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was on Thursday night disallowed from taking a flight to Dubai after airport authorities found some 'technical problems' with her passport.
Bhutto, who was scheduled to go on a four-day trip to Dubai where her husband Asif Ali Zardari, her daughter and her mother currently live, was stopped at the international airport in Islamabad.
Officials have pointed out some 'technical problems' with her passport, leaders of her Pakistan People's Party said amid reports that the travel document had expired.
The problem is being sorted out so that she could leave for Dubai on Friday morning.
Bhutto's decision to travel out of the country came amidst persisting differences between PPP and rival Nawaz Sharif's PML-N on framing the charter of demands, especially on the issue of reinstating Supreme Court judges who were sacked for not endorsing the emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf on November 3.
Bhutto and Sharif, who met for the first time since returning to Pakistan from exile on Monday, had warned that they could boycott the January 8 parliamentary polls if the government did not fulfill the proposed charter of demands.
The eight-member committee formed by the PPP and PML-N to draw up the charter of demands could take "between three days and a week" to complete its work, Bhutto told Dawn News channel.
