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KARACHI (Reuters):

A Pakistani high court yesterday ordered authorities to withdraw a request to Interpol to issue arrest warrants for exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, her lawyer said.

The court order came as speculation in Pakistan mounted that Bhutto could forge a power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf, the army chief who has been besieged in recent weeks by militant violence and political setbacks.

Last year, the government had asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for Bhutto after the government filed a complaint with a lower court that she had misreported her assets to election authorities in 1996.