ISLAMABAD, June 29: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday rebutted the government’s claim that former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif were in contact with the Musharraf regime.
The media managers of both opposition parties lashed out at Minister of State for Information Tariq Azeem at a press conference on Thursday for wrongly claiming that the exiled leaders of the two parties were still busy in talks with the military regime to get their share in power.
PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal said the government had once again launched a “shameful” disinformation campaign in an effort to create rift in the ranks of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy before a grand meeting of the Alliance in London on July 2.
In a statement, PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the government’s assertion that talks were underway between Ms Bhutto and the regime was yet another desperate bid by the rulers to sow dissension within the ranks of the opposition.
