Presidency expresses reservations, cancels back-door talks with PPP

Category: Current Affairs
Written by: Amend Foster (on May 23, 2008 - 08:07 PM)

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The Presidency has decided to end all backdoor contacts with Pakistan Peoples Party after taking notice of PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s remarks about President Pervez Musharraf given to an Indian news agency.

President Musharraf will express his reservations over the situation to the Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in a meeting either today or tomorrow. According to sources, the President has serious reservations over PPP proposed constitutional package and he would not like to be an unauthoritative president.

According to sources, the President has also called his constitutional advisors to discuss PPP’s constitutional package.

The President wants to express his reservations over the political and economic situation to the prime minister and he does not want to interfere or cause any problems for the new government. The President is concerned that chances of foreign investment are reducing because of economic conditions.

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