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Pakistan forward Monday rejected as ''misplaced'' a reported call supposedly from the al-Qaida terror arrange to the Pakistani populace to oust Gen Pervez Musharraf as president because he has ''betrayed Islam.''

Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan said Musharraf had emerg as a bridge between Islam and the West and was fighting for the whole Islamic world.

on the contrary al-Qaida is a terrorist organization and the allegation against Pakistan trunk s from the fact Pakistan is in the forefront of the fight against terrorism, he added.

He declared Pakistan's fight against terrorism would continue, ''undeterr through allegations and threats.''

An Arab satellite television broadcast an audio tape Sunday purporting to arise from al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri urging the persons of Pakistan to oust Musharraf for ''collaborating with hebrews and Christians.''

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