Lahore, Sep 18 (ANI): Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has said that the return of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to Pakistan would bring political stability to the country.

"We would welcome Bhutto on her return to the country," Kasuri told reporters on the sidelines of an exhibition organised at the French Embassy in Islamabad to celebrate the completion of 60 years of Pakistan-France friendship.

Kasuri said the government wanted to take along all parties for a national consensus on key issues.

The government wanted to have links with the PML-N and had contacted the party leadership before Nawaz Sharif’s return, but he adopted a "harsh approach," the Daily Times quoted Kasuri, as saying.

Earlier, the Musharraf camp has been pushed to the backfoot after some leading ministers and the PML-Q members strongly resisted the deal with Bhutto in their meeting with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and party chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.

Pakistan People's Party chairperson, Bhutto would be landing at the Karachi airport on October 18, ending her eight years of exile. (With Inputs from ANI)