US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday he had no immediate plans to travel to Pakistan, rejecting reports he would soon visit President Pervez Musharraf for talks on a nuclear proliferation scandal.
"I have no plans to travel to Pakistan," Powell told reporters outside the State Department.
Powell said he had read "with interest" reports quoting a government official in Pakistan as saying he planned to visit the country in "the near future."
"I've had conversations with President Musharraf, we had a good conversation on Friday evening," Powell said.
"But neither in that conversation or in any other conversations have I indicated that a trip was imminent."
"I look forward to visiting Pakistan again. I hope it's in the not-too-distant future. But there are no trip plans on at the moment.
Powell spoke to Musharraf to discuss Pakistan's nuclear proliferation probe and the pardon granted to the top Pakistani nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan.