(Yahoo News) President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and former rival Benazir Bhutto have reached an agreement regarding Musharraf's military role, a key step toward a power-sharing deal, a senior official said Wednesday.
"Both sides have agreed on the issue of uniform," Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, a close Musharraf ally, told reporters, referring to the president's military role.
Bhutto was quoted in a British newspaper making a similar comment, although neither she nor Ahmed said explicitly that Musharraf had agreed to her demand that he step down as army chief.
Envoys for the U.S.-allied president are trying to work out a pact with Bhutto, an exiled former prime minister, that would rescue his bid for another five-year presidential term.