ISLAMABAD, March 20: Former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif will meet in London on Wednesday (today) to discuss the political situation in the country with particular reference to the ongoing judicial crisis, a PPP spokesman said on Tuesday.

Ms Bhutto, who is the chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), will arrive in London on Wednesday from a US trip and call on Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif to discuss the future strategy in the wake of the judicial crisis, her spokesman and former senator Farhatullah Babar said.

He said Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim and PPP information secretary Sherry Rahman were also expected to join the chairperson in her meeting with Mr Sharif.

The previously unscheduled meeting between the two exiled former prime ministers is taking place after the postponement of the multi-party conference (MPC) by Mr Sharif.

Ms Bhutto is scheduled to leave for India on March 24 where she would be a key-note speaker at India Today Conclave 2007. She will speak on “Challenges for the brave new world: can Indo-Pakistan relations be reinvented?"

Prominent among those participating in the conclave are former Iranian president Syed Mohammad Khatami, Indian Railways Minister Laloo Parsad Yadev, Dr Francis Fukuyama of Johns Hopkins University, Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan, Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis and former New Zealand cricketer Richard Hadlee.

Mr Babar said that Ms Bhutto would only stay in India for few hours and would reach Dubai the same day.