The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Monday that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani talked to President Zardari during a meeting with Prime Minister Gilani on December 16, a private TV channel reported. The ISPR said that Kayani and the PM were having a meeting when President Zardari phoned and Gen Kayani expressed his desire to inquire after the president’s health. The ISPR said the PM had earlier made a statement to this effect that the president phoned during his meeting with the Kayani.
The ISPR said that last 72-hour developments were wrongly being attributed to the Army chief and the resident’s talk. It reiterated that no other matter except inquiring after the president’s health figured up, in the brief one-minute telephonic talk.
COAS only inquired after president in 1-min talk: ISPR
