WASHINGTON, Dec 1: The Pakistan embassy here has dismissed as utterly baseless and motivated a report said to have been published in India that the wife of Gen Pervez Musharraf has been visiting Washington, looking for a house to buy in the US.

The report was mentioned by an Indian journalist at the White House briefing on Friday when presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer refused to comment on it.

The journalist asked Mr Fleischer to comment on the report “that Mrs Musharraf, the wife of Gen Musharraf, was in Washington twice recently last week, looking for a house. Is there something... and senior US officials helped her to look some houses in Washington, DC, and in New York. Is there something...”

Fleischer: I have not heard anything about that, to confirm that, or shed any light on that. I have not heard that.

Q: She is planning to move to the US.

Fleischer: I have not heard anything about that, so I have nothing to offer on it. I don’t know if that’s true or not.