Media reports about Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's intended resignation are nothing but totally baseless rumors, presidential spokesman Rashid Qureshi said Thursday.
Qureshi said it appeared that some journalists had just dreamed up something and floated it in the media without bothering to get their stories confirmed by concerned quarters.
The official Associated Press of Pakistan quoted Qureshi as saying that reports about Musharraf's intended resignation were totally baseless.
It has become routine practice for certain journalists to float "fabricated news stories" time and again, said Qureshi.
Former Prime Minister and Chief of the Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz Sharif - is reported to have said Wednesday his coalition partner Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party, had agreed to remove Musharraf from the presidency.
Responding to this, Qureshi said the comments about President Musharraf did not credit a response from the President House.
Qureshi said there existed a good working relation between President House and the government, adding that Musharraf had stated before and after the elections that he would work smoothly with whosoever was voted into power by the people.
Musharraf is adhering to his commitment and there is no question of any confrontation between the president and the government, he said.
To another question, he said neither Musharraf nor anyone else had ever talked about using Article 58-2(b) of the Constitution to dissolve the National Assembly, but the "rumor factories" spread baseless information to misguide the people.
Source:Xinhua
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