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Monday, July 02, 2012
Govt slams as ‘baseless’ story attributed to PMISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister’s House spokesman on Sunday condemned as baseless a news story published in a section of press according to which Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf had said that he would not present “a first-class president before a third-class Swiss magistrate”.
The spokesman said the prime minister had not given any such statement during his recent visit to Lahore where he met a cross-section of society, including editors of national newspapers, representatives of lawyers’ community and parliamentarians.
He said that such a news story was not only false but also malicious and seemed to have been sponsored by those who were bent upon creating mistrust between institutions with a view to undermine democracy.
The spokesman said complete record of the prime minister’s talk and the following questions and answers session with the editors of national dailies was available and any one could verify what he had stated.
He called upon the newspapers’ representative bodies like All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) and Press Council of Pakistan to investigate the matter. pr
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk