Bhutto flies out of Pakistan

Former Pakistani Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto arrived in Dubai today, after twice changing her mind about leaving Pakistan to visit family there.

She was met by her husband then taken in a silver Bentley to her family villa in an overlooking a lake and golf course.

Mrs Bhutto, wearing a traditional, rose-coloured Pakistani dress and white headscarf, was greeted in the yard of the villa by her daughters and staff.

Mrs Bhutto’s trip comes just two weeks after she returned to Pakistan from an eight-year exile.

Her travel plans became a source of confusion after her homecoming was shattered by a suicide bombing that killed 145 people.

In Pakistan last night Mrs Bhutto said she was postponing the Dubai trip because she was afraid the Islamabad government would impose a state of emergency during her absence.

However officials of her Pakistan People’s Party later said she had left her Karachi residence and was going after all.