LAHORE, Oct 7: The presidency doesn’t endorse the views expressed by ruling Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz that the National Reconciliation Ordinance was a trick played on the Pakistan People’s Party by the government to achieve certain political objectives and that the legislation has become irrelevant.

“The presidency doesn’t endorse (whatever has been attributed to the PML president or the prime minister),” said the president’s spokesman Rashid Qureshi.

“The president continues to work for political reconciliation. It’s wrong to say that the president wanted to get something done with the cooperation of the opposition and had changed his mind after getting re-elected for another term.”

The ordinance promulgated after talks between the president’s emissaries and PPP leaders has been challenged in various courts.

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