Islamabad:President Asif Ali Zardari has said he is ready for talks with the main opposition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on an early general election and all other issues.
In an interview with a local private channel he said the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government was not afraid of polls.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has frequently asserted the elections will take place after the expiry of the five-year term of the government in March 2013, but opposition parties are pressing for polls this year.
In a two-part interview shown on Friday night and last night, the president answered questions on a wide range of issues.
Findings
He said the government will accept the findings of the National Security Committee of the parliament in the memo scandal, which a judicial commission set up by the Supreme Court is also probing.
The memo asking for Washington's help against the Pakistani military was allegedly sent in May last year to then American military chief Admiral Michael Mullen by former Pakistani ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani. The claim was made by Pakistani American businessman Mansour Ejaz in October, triggering the scandal.
Zardari said the results of the inquiry being conducted by the parliamentary committee would be accepted because the parliament was supreme. He believed that the matter had been blown out of proportion.
He sought to dispel the impression that his government was in confrontation with the judiciary and the military.
