Sensing the sudden new strength of her position, Miss Bhutto has said that she will co-operate only if she can become prime minister for the third time, too large a pill for the general to swallow.
Separately, Vivus has now succumbed to shareholder pressure and begun holdings talks with large drugmakers to market its Qsymia diet pill, which has so far failed to live up to its promise, despite becoming the first commercially available prescription diet pill to be approved by the FDA in more than a decade.