Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday said Pakistan was not looking for an apology from the US on the Salala checkpost incident but was seeking new directions in relations with Washington on key issues.
Talking to reporters on Sunday, Gilani said, “We want the full support of parliament on this issue which will also deal with Pakistan’s ties with NATO and ISAF as these two organisations combine a total of 48 countries,” he said. He said Pakistan was a mature and responsible nuclear power that wanted good and friendly ties with the rest of the world. On the grant of the most-favoured-nation status to India, Gilani said Pakistan had shown no discrimination and there were a number of countries to whom “this country has extended a similar status”.
The prime minister said the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was one of the country’s most important institutions and it should not be controversial.
He said parliament had granted immunity to President Asif Ali Zardari and he could not do away with it himself. Gilani said the Supreme Court should refer the president’s immunity issue to parliament for reconsideration.
He said he was ready to quit if things could become better with his resignation from office. Asked whether he was contemplating resigning from the office in case he was held in contempt by the Supreme Court for his failure to write a letter to the Swiss authorities, the prime minister responded by saying the matter would not still go away as the new person would have to deal with the issue as well. The prime minister said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) did not want the formation of a new province. He said the foreign policy including the Pakistan-US relations would be discussed in the joint session of parliament.
On Balochistan, he said the main issue facing the mineral-rich south western province was law and order. He said he would hold a discussion with the Balochistan leadership on the progress of Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan package and how far the various resolutions passed by the provincial assembly had been implemented.
Gilani stressed on bringing law and order under control and taking the political leadership of the province on board before dealing with various major issues in a comprehensive manner. Gilani noted that the 19th Amendment was passed by parliament to facilitate the appointment of judges of the superior judiciary and in accordance with the views of the Supreme Court.
The prime minister also spoke on the success of politics of consensus pursued by his government and said this was a good example of the political maturity of the PPP leadership.
“People think the PPP has the ability of deliver and they trust the party.”
Referring to the energy issues, he said his government had taken a number of initiatives adding that the government had completed the Mangla Dam raising, the construction of Basha Dam and was also concentrating on alternate energy such as nuclear solar, hydel and wind while many other projects are in the pipeline.
He said the Iranian gas pipeline project was also underway while Pakistan was getting 1000 megawatts of electricity from Iran.
Gilani said his government had resolved more than half the issue of circular debt through the existing capacity of electricity and if the rest could be sorted out in the coming national budget, they could settle many more issues.
Mr. Gillani. Go back to the hole you crawled out of. You are an embarrasement to the nation. Once you are out of office, you know you will be someone's bi*ch in jail. Its just a matter of time :))
His own sons should be put to fight at borders and FATA so he can feel what it takes to defend the nation. This looser speaks what his master in presidency says, almost all of the govt actors serve against Pakistan and its interests! agree with Kamran! Govt not seeking apology then its inviting others to kill at will! One day inshallah this nation will rise and put such clowns to justice!
Your statement is a profound insult to the Officers and Jawans of Pakistan Army who lost their lives on that fateful day. Shame on you.
He has no shame. All he knows is that he is in power now but he is forgetting that the bigger they are they harder they fall.
But I like his collection of ties. He has a taste for good things in life…
One of these ties could be used to hang him one day :))
Could one (preferably pink polka-dot) cover the small of your endowment?
In the run up to the last moments in office prime ministers in general loose contact with reality and start to talk gobbledegook like Mr Gilani.
England 18th March 2012
2320 hours
amreeki peethus!!!!!!!!!
Big difference between headline and story..
always
You belong in solitary confinement for life and all of your sons (legit or non legit) should be bombed to pieces by NATO and ISAF so you know what it means to the families of the Jawans who were martyred that day. Let us not forget your one moron son who slapped a journalist at the Shoaib Malik/Sania wedding in Lahore caught on camera! Forget Arab spring – wait till PAKISTAN spring and its coming IA!! Sharam naam kee cheez hee nahin in logon main. Apni tie say tera phanda banay gaa tera aur Zardari kah. Roti kapra makaan? Your slogan should be NO ROTI, NO KAPRA, NO MAKAAN, NO BIJLI, NO GAS, NO ROZGAARI, MEHNGAI, BUT MAIRAY PAAS 1O PRADOS AUR MAHAL PURI DUNIYA MAIN.
Remind me again how he became the prime minister. Didn't his daughter Fiza leave her husband for zardari and isn't she living with zardari now? YUP. Thats what I thought.
bloody goof
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