Islamabad: Aides of President Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto will be holding a final round of talks in the United Arab Emirates from today to "devise a strategy for the coming general election," a media report said here.

The talks were earlier scheduled after Eid-ul-Fitr, but after Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and PML-N president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain ruled out any truck with the PPP for the polls, the meetings were urgently arranged in the UAE as the leadership of Bhutto's party had "expressed serious reservations", The News quoted unnamed sources as saying.

"The top PPP leadership has asked the Musharraf camp to finalise all issues and define areas of cooperation in future, especially during the general election," a source was quoted as saying.

"The fresh round of talks is said to be the final one and the Future set-up of country's politics will be decided (during the parleys)," the report said.
Rehman Malik, a senior PPP leader and one of the beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) promulgated on Friday by Musharraf to facilitate the withdrawal of corruption charges against political leaders, will represent the party in the talks.

The report said it was not immediately clear who would represent the government at the parleys. The News also quoted an unnamed senior PPP leader as saying that the party's central executive committee has given Bhutto the authority to negotiate with anyone on behalf of the party.