ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim has termed the reports of deal between the government and the People's Party Parliamentarians (PPP) as part of the Musharraf regime's dis information campaign.

Speaking at a seminar here on Friday, the ARD chief categorically stated that no "underhand deal" was going on between the PPP and the government. The seminar was organized by the party to mark the completion of eight years in jail of Asif Ali Zardari.

Mr Fahim said such disinformation was being spread by the the government to damage the already announced protest movement by the opposition parties. He said the opposition parties were determined to launch a decisive anti-government mass mobilization campaign soon after Eid.

He said those who had named Zardari as "Mr 10 per cent" should feel ashamed today as not even a single charge had been proved against him in the last eight years. "Today, Zardari has proved that he is not 10 per cent, but 100 per cent clean and honest man," Mr Fahim added.

He said today the whole nation was behind Mr Zardari despite a massive propaganda campaign against him by the government. He said it had become clear to the nation that all cases against Mr Zardari were "false and fabricated."

He said the governments of Nawaz Sharif, Gen Pervez Musharraf, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain had fallen during the past eight years and now the government of Shaukat Aziz was about to fall.

He regretted that there was no justice in the country and the judges of the higher courts had taken oath under the PCO of Gen Musharraf. He said Zulfikar Ali Bhutto brought home a large number of prisoners of war from India, but those who got freedom due to the efforts of Mr Bhutto later hanged him. He said Mr Zardari had been put behind the bars as he was considered a threat to the dictatorship.

Earlier, PPP AJK president Ishaq Zafar said the rulers had kept Mr Zardari as a hostage. He said a former judge had confessed that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged due to pressure on judiciary.