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Musharraf has no immediate plans for a broad-based govt in Pak

A senior Pakistani official on Tuesday dismissed media speculation that President Gen Pervez Musharraf planned to form a broad-based government before his trip to the United States in November.

"There is no question of change in the government. The president's meetings with the politicians are part of a consultation process," president's press secretary Rashid Qureshi told reporters in Islamabad after Musharraf held a meeting with various political leaders.

Newspaper reports had speculated that Musharraf was planning to recast his government by inducting some second rung political leaders in order to give a 'civilian look' to his regime before leaving for New York on November 8 to address the United Nations General Assembly.

Meanwhile, efforts to form an alternative government in Afghanistan picked up momentum with the UN secretary general's special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi holding discussions with Musharraf in Islamabad on Tuesday on the broad parameters of the composition of a future administrative structure in the country.

Musharraf told Brahimi that 'the political dispensation should be arrived at through an indigenous process and should not be imposed from outside'.

Brahimi is also expected to meet leaders of various factions in Afghanistan.

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