The government has strongly denied that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had made a phone call to PML-Q leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain before the month of Ramazan.
Referring to a news item published in The Express Tribune on Friday, titled “rare contact: first Nawaz phone call to Shujaat in a decade”, a spokesman of the federal government strongly denied that any such phone call has been made.
He regarded this as “merely speculative and a figment of the correspondent’s imagination”. The spokesman wished that the reporter should have obtained the version of the government before filing this story.
The spokesman expressed the hope that in future such ‘misleading news stories’ on sensitive matters would be avoided as they could lead to misunderstanding and undesired speculations.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 2nd, 2014.
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The Chaudhrys should open a University of Political Science at Gujrat (meant to be a sincere compliment).
"a figment of the correspondent’s imagination", of the correspondent. Now we know that a call was made and NS is trying to sabotage what ever unity there is among some opposition parties. Choudrys are too slick for him or any body.
Could you please tell us the accountability against the journalist who made these baseless claims??
Because Chd. Shujaat did not return the 'call' it is now termed as speculation.