Musharraf rejects 'pressure or ultimatum'

Pervez Musharraf today rejected “any pressure or ultimatum” to decide whether to quit as army chief, his spokesman said, after opposition leader Benazir Bhutto claimed he would step down under a pact to restore Pakistan to democracy.

The US-allied general and the former prime minister are negotiating an agreement that could end military rule eight years after Musharraf seized power in a coup and see him share power with the opposition.