[Geo News] President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani are reluctant to meet with the British special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles who is presently visiting the country, sources told Geo News on Wednesday. According to sources, the government has expressed its resentment over Pakistani students' arrest in Britain in the absence of evidence and the ensuing media trial. The British envoy was to meet the President and Prime Minister but they refused in protest of the above. Meanwhile, Pakistani High Commissioner in Britain, Wajid Shams-ul-Hasan has said that Lodon should offer an apology to Islamabad. However, spokesman of British High Commission has said that a request for meeting with President and Prime Minister has been forwarded but there is no information of it being turned down.
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