ISLAMABAD, Aug 12, SPA -- Pakistani President Gen. PervezMusharraf has reiterated his opposition to the return oftwo exiled former prime ministers before parliamentaryelections due later this year, a government minister said. Musharraf has said that his government would hold parliamentary elections later this year _ but that he wants exiled former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto to stay away from Pakistan in the run-up to the polls. The country's independent Geo news channel reportedSaturday that Musharraf reiterated his stand at a meetingof Pakistani newspaper editors. Pakistan's Information Minister Mohammed Ali Durraniconfirmed the meeting and Musharraf's remarks, but did notelaborate, the Associated Press reported.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/474460