'No country could give directions': Pakistan on US call probing poll rigging

Foreign Office spokes­person Mum­taz Zahra Baloch in her weekly press address on Friday categorically said that "no country could give directions" to Pakistan, an independent and sovereign nation.

Pakis­tan has dismissed the US 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 Friday categorically said that "no country could give directions" to Pakistan, an independent and sovereign nation.

“We believe in our own sovereign right to make decisions about Pakistan’s internal affairs,” Dawn News quoted Bal­och as saying in reply to the comments made by her US counterpart regarding allegations of misconduct in the controversy-marred general elections.