ISLAMABAD, Aug 27: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has said the London-based lawyer retained by the NAB, Mr Perry, spilled the beans when he admitted at a press conference in London last week that there was no evidence linking Benazir Bhutto to the disputed property in Surrey.

This was said in a letter to the British newspaper Independent in response to a report "Pakistan pursuit of Bhuttos", published in The Independent on August 21.

The letter reiterated the stand of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto that she never visited the house in Surrey, purchased it or was concerned with what happened to it.

The letter reads: "The Surrey story stems from Mr Zardari's objection to the sale of Surrey house on the grounds that Islamabad claims it belongs to him. Benazir Bhutto has not claimed the Surrey House. Exploiting her name to attract readers is unworthy of the Independent."

Pointing out the inaccuracies in the report, the letter says: "Benazir Bhutto is 51, not 58. This as an illustration of a lack of research that could easily have clarified matters and made our article more accurate." Benazir Bhutto remains Pakistan's most popular leader and, therefore, a political victim of successive regimes since 1996.

Benazir Bhutto will be more than happy to return to Pakistan if Gen Musharraf restores the services of the Supreme Court judges he sacked "to pressurize the judiciary with his iron fist". "Perhaps the Independent could ask him to do that and then see where his threats of arresting Benazir Bhutto lead," the letter said.

Meanwhile, Pakistan People's Party's Central Information Bureau coordinator Farzana Raja on Friday demanded resignation of National Assembly speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain, terming his behaviour dictatorial.

The PPP leader, in a statement, alleged that the speaker's attitude towards the opposition members had grown from bad to worse. "His Friday's clash with the PML-N leader, Khawja Saad Rafiq, shows how much he respects the opposition parliamentarians," she added.

Ms Raja said if the parliamentarians too had to be shooed away by sergeants as desired by the speaker, a common man had nothing to expect. She said Mr Rafiq was only clarifying Makhdoom Javed Hashmi's position when the speaker 'scolded' him.

Every parliamentarian has the right to speak, but the speaker wants them to sit silent and listen to his speeches or those of the treasury members, she added. Ms Raja said: "Our fight against dictatorship will continue.

"The country is experiencing worst dictatorship at the hands of Gen Pervez Musharraf." She further said the parliament was being run by the "puppets of Gen Musharraf".