The document against Chaudhry, currently under house arrest here, was given to top journalists of London who attended a breakfast meeting with President Pervez Musharraf on Monday during his three-day visit to the UK on the last leg of his four-nation European tour. Musharraf’s spokesman Maj Gen (Retd) Rashid Qureshi said the document was distributed to the journalists to inform them of the “real situation” regarding the judicial crisis in Pakistan.

Qureshi said a lot was being written in the Western press about the judicial crisis in Pakistan and an attempt was made to apprise journalists about the real causes of the crisis.

The dossier, in which Musharraf defended his decision to sack Chaudhry for alleged corruption and nepotism, provoked an angry response from the deposed judge, who sent an open letter to several world leaders describing the Pakistan President as an “extremist general”.