Bhutto accuses Sharif

Islamabad - The Pakistani opposition leader, Ms Benazir Bhutto, yesterday rejected government allegations of financial wrongdoing…

Islamabad - The Pakistani opposition leader, Ms Benazir Bhutto, yesterday rejected government allegations of financial wrongdoing and announced plans to hit back by bringing her own corruption cases against the Prime Minister, Mr Nawaz Sharif.

Ms Bhutto spoke a day after Mr Sharif's top corruption investigator, Senator Saifur Rehman, said that British authorities had ordered the seizure of documents relating to the Bhutto family's assets and bank accounts in Britain, on Islamabad's request.

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