ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has contradicted the statement of MMA Chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad in which he said Benazir Bhutto had asked Gen Pervez Musharraf to allow her become the prime minister and he (Gen Musharraf) would be allowed to continue as the president.

A PPP spokesman, in a statement issued here on Saturday, said: "How Ms Bhutto, who is the head of the largest and popular political party, could have asked a military dictator to make her the prime minister when the dictator himself neither has legitimacy nor popular backing."

As a popular leader of the people, Benazir Bhutto would accept the office of prime minister only as a representative of the people and not as representative of a 'military dictator', he added.

The spokesman said: "The PPP believes that Gen Musharraf has foisted himself as the president through brute force using the constitutionally dubious mechanism of referendum held in a fraudulent manner."

The PPP has exposed and rejected the fraudulent referendum, rejected the 17th constitutional amendment and the so-called vote of confidence by Gen Musharraf, he added.