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NBC's Ann Curry, substituting for anchor Brian Williams, obtained an interview with Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, now living in exile in London and Dubai under accusations of corruption, "charges she firmly denies." Bhutto reacted to reports that her political rival Pervez Musharraf, the general cum president, had been on the verge of imposing a state of emergency: "My fear is that if elections are postponed or democracy is not restored, it will simply play into the hands of the extremist forces." She announced her plans to return to Pakistan to run in parliamentary elections. No surprise, Curry was more interested in talking about al-Qaeda and the Taliban than about internal Pakistani politics. She melded the two agendas by quoting Bhutto's claim that "members of Musharraf's own government are preventing the capture of Osama bin Laden."
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