ISLAMABAD, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani media reports said Monday that the Pakistani government has decided not to take any action against former president Pervez Musharraf and has forwarded a clear message in this regard to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif.

    The private newspaper The Nation said that the Saudi authorities have advised the PML-N leader and a two-time former prime minister to refrain from any parliamentary elections till 2010 as part of a deal.

    Quoting sources in the government, the private newspaper DAWN claimed Nawaz Sharif had decided against returning to Pakistan due to this decision and because the deal struck between Nawaz and Musharraf prevented the PML-N chief from contesting elections.

    Quoting Saudi sources, it claimed that in a meeting with Saudi King Shah Abdullah during Ramazan, Nawaz Sharif was advised to honor his agreement with Musharraf if he wanted to maintain his friendship with the king, as Saudi Arabia had been a guarantor of the deal.

    Nawaz Sharif and his family had reportedly signed the agreement on December 2000 and after that they had gone to Saudi Arabia.

    Under the agreement, sources said neither Nawaz nor his brother Shahbaz Sharif, the Punjab chief minister, could contest elections or participate in the country's politics.

    However, PML-N spokesman Ahsan Iqbal has rejected the media reports, saying there was no truth to such reports, as news sources had not quoted any officials from either Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, the Daily Times reported.

    "Media reports about any restriction on Mr Nawaz Sharif from contesting polls till 2010 are baseless and part of a disinformation campaign against Mr Sharif and his party," the spokesman was quoted as saying.

    He claimed that the Saudi king had not asked Sharif to stay away from elections till 2010 and said that taking part in the polls was a constitutional right of the PML-N chief.

    He also rejected that Musharraf was ever discussed in Nawaz Sharif's meeting with the Saudi king last month.

Special Report: Pakistani Situation