The senior leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Thursday reviewed the situation following the Supreme Court verdict to indict Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for contempt of court, discussing all possible options available to the government.
The core group of the party met here in the prime minister’s chambers at Parliament House, with Gilani in the chair. Aitezaz Ahsen, the party’s senior leader and counsel for the premier in the contempt case, briefed the meeting on the court order, its political and legal implications and all legal and political options available to the government to avert disqualification of the chief executive of the country.
A source told Pakistan Today that during the meeting, Prime Minister Gilani said he had appeared in court in the recent past and would do so again on February 13. “Unlike past governments, we have respected the court orders and would do so in future,” the source quoted the prime minister as saying.
Apart from Ahsen, Religious Affairs Minister Khursheed Shah, Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim, PPP Information Secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira, former water and power minister Raja Parvez Ashraf and Leader of the House in the Senate Nayyar Hussain Bukhari attended the meeting.However, when contacted, the officials in the prime minister’s media team said no such meeting had taken place.
