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Article: 'Total nonsense', says Musharraf to coup rumours

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The Hindustan Times
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September 25, 2006
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Islamabad, Sept 25 -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf angrily rebuffed rumours sweeping across the country Sunday ranging from his government being toppled in a coup to his heart surgery in the United States.

"Pakistan is not a banana republic and rumours about overthrowing of the Pakistan government is (a) nonsense, total nonsense," Musharraf said in New York late Sunday, the News International quoted him as saying.

The president was reacting to rumours of a coup and dissolution of the parliament and provincial assemblies triggered across Pakistan Sunday following a nationwide power breakdown.

The rumours were so widespread it compelled Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and his ministers to ...

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