By APP
Islamabad : Presidential spokesman Major General ® Rashid Qureshi Friday contradicted a news report published in a section of the press that President Pervez Musharraf has sent a message to a political party to chalk out modalities for the restoration of judges.“It is outrageously fabricated news item and has no reality. I think the PPP leadership has also denied any such message conveyed to them”, Rashid Qureshi told PTV.
He said media should avoid spreading any rumours about the country’s top elected office holder.
The Spokesman termed as unfair the claim made in the news report that the President conveyed any such message through one of his friends.
He said the media should confirm any report, particularly about the President, before publishing it. “All they have to do is to pick up the phone and call me, as it also comes in the journalistic ethics to confirm such reports”, he added.
The Spokesman further said that President Pervez Musharraf, elected for five years, is ready to work with the elected government and has no plan to resign.
He said a planned campaign is being run in Pakistani media about speculated resignation plan of the President which “is totally baseless and unfounded.”
Only Mian Nawaz Sharif and socalled civil society consisting of 100 or 200 people are clamouring about the president’s resignation, the spokesman said, adding that parties that won the elections are ready to work with the President.
Nawaz Sharif kept repeating that he could not work with the President, while the factual position is that he is not elected from anywhere, the spokesman said.
Recently Pakistani media reported that US senator Biden and Chuck Hagel on their return to America had stated that President Musharraf should now think about honourable exit, but the worthy senators immediately denied the news report, Qureshi said.
Also US Senator John Kerry made it clear that senator Hagel did not ever call for President Musharraf to step down.
In fact, the whole world is praising the President for holding free, fair transparent and peaceful elections in the country, he said.
The elected representatives should now form the government and take the country forward, the spokesman said.