Pakistan’s Foreign Office dismisses U.S. ‘directions’ on probing alleged election rigging
Pakistan has dismissed the U.S. suggestion to probe discrepancies in the February 8 general elections, asserting that it will not succumb to external dictates. Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in her weekly press address on March 1 categorically said that “no country could give directions” to Pakistan, an independent and sovereign nation. “We believe…