Taunting Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday said the PML-N could not even launch a “short march” let alone the long march it was talking about.
Talking to reporters, Gilani contended that the Pakistan People’s Party was better placed to launch movements. He said President Asif Ali Zardari enjoyed complete immunity under the constitution.
Responding to the PML-N’s demand that the prime minister resign after being convicted by the Supreme Court in the contempt of court case, Gilani said he was a public representative and “will not leave office on the whims of the Sharifs’ courts”.
“Why is PML-N is in such a hurry and is not even waiting for the detailed judgement of the SC,” Gilani said, adding that the judiciary could not disqualify any public representative and the speaker of the National Assembly alone could decide about it. “I will only listen to the directions of the speaker… if she asks me to leave I will immediately accept and go to the people.”
Gilani asserted that there was no constitutional crisis in the country. “It is only a question of interpretation by the Sharif brothers. Nawaz went to the SC in haste in the memo case in a bid to topple the government but he failed.”
He said the PPP did not criticise the PML-N when its top leadership took a long flight to Jeddah from Adiala Jail but had only asked under which court’s order had they done so.
The prime minister said he had not been convicted on corruption charges or immorality. “It was in respect of the judiciary that I appeared before the SC three times. We have always followed the constitution and the opposition should also demonstrate patience in its conduct.”
To the alleged involvement of his son Ali Musa Gilani in the Ephedrine case‚ Gilani said he had asked Musa to immediately return from abroad and face the investigation. “He has already appeared before Anti-Narcotics Force officials,” he added.
About the recent drone attack in Miranshah despite parliament’s recommendations against them‚ Gilani said Pakistan and the US were engaged in preliminary negotiations. “One can only comment once the process is completed. Parliamentary recommendations also require expulsion of foreign fighters from Pakistan and commitment not to allow use of our soil for attacks on any other country,” he said.
Gilani said the 30-second detention, which could also “qualify a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records”, did not have anything to do with his disqualification.
He said the opposition should “show some patience” because he had the right to appeal in the court.
Gilani said former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, when found guilty of the charges against him, did not resign but continued with his job and questioned the gathering as to why he was asked to resign on “moral grounds”.
“Some say why did I not tender a resignation on the basis of morality, I ask, was I convicted for committing any acts of moral turpitude? I was only convicted because I acted according to the constitution.”
Gilani said he was “totally independent” and enjoyed immunity while discharging his duties.
“Imran Khan proved to be better than the Sharif brothers in this regard,” Gilani said, adding, “They were scared that somebody else might launch a long march before they did.”
He said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf President Javed Hashmi had met him at his nephew’s wedding and “he told me that his party will take a decision when the court decided something”.
PM's shallow rhetoric & shameless stubborness continue to go hand in hand.
let us wait for the detailed SC verdict…..instead of jumping to conclusions based on short order…? Yes ! on principle he shud hv resigned pending exhaustion of all legal course…but we do not hv culture of resigning in this country compared to what leaders & peoples Reps in the West & Europe do based on mere allegations ?
You mean to say we donot have any shame… unlike the leaders of the west
Bravo…Gillani……you rock…give these so called one eyed judges a befitting reply…! we support you and will vote for you next time….!
so that he come and loot again 🙂
Were there less looters in 65 yrs
selective justice is no justice. Why not to hear disqualification case against Shahbaz lying in SC for last 5 years
Judges don't act like our judiciary in the West…the current judiciary is on a vendetta and on a payroll of establishment….government servants are no revolutionaries…Hakomti key noker…!
at least they are not corrupt like your fathers…
90% corruption in Pakistan is done by civil and military bureaucracy. 1000 billions every year gulped by Income tax bureaucracy in tax thefts. 90% businessmen evade 700 billion tax annually. Politicians much less corrupt than bureacray n Judges.
U may be highly qualified but u hv no understanding of our system which has evolved under martial law dictatorships and corrupted all organs of state. Let the political process take its natural course. In the end it will bear good res
What a shameful creature.
PM is 110% correct – our country is facing a "turmoil" situation in almost all areas of life – a stable Premier office is the need of hour – The judges should have given a clear verdict instead of beating behind the bushes in their short-order, they could have announced a clear-cut verdict rather than dragging this country in limbo. PM Sahib you are a very brave man and despite of all hue n cry from by-birth losers – you deserve a pat-on-a-back as Mr.Talat pervaiz said – "Gillani … you ROCK"
yes, but they sure can ask him to go stand n the corner and hold his ears, or may be ask him to do the murgha pose, that's more than enough for the likes of him, and woe be to the ones whom he "represents".
"PM said he has right of appeal on his conviction and if the appeal is rejected only then the court will send the reference to the Speaker. He said he will only listen to the directions of the Speaker"
There are respectful ways also which you declined to chose. Few weeks more will bring nothing to you or to the stature of PP. Only fear is on rejecion of appeal if matter is referred to speaker what other arguments will be brought to further prolong your removal.
Isn't he the same person who, untill a few days ago, was saying that if supreme court convicts him he won't have to resign because he will have been disqualified? These people have no shame. Their word means nothing to them. As bad as zardari is, gillani is ten times worse. If he will not obey the court order then why is he even appealing the verdict?
convicted P M SAHEH pride has fall.perhaps you remember that when ZAB was in the jail and he also said like you,no body can hurt me.Allah is great when the luck will fail,nothing will retreat.
afterall you are a human being and human beings are created from soil not from FIRE.So behave and yhink lie an INSAN.
HE IS RIGHT!!! A PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVE CAN DISQUALIFY JUDICIARY!!!
He is above the Law like many lunatics in the country!
Partisan Judiciary murdabad.
Talat sb….if the same judiciary disqualified PML N PM today…what wud be yr reaction ? – Judiciary Zindabad, & the cheek of Mr Jillani is " he will do what the NA speaker directs him to do " & " judiciary cannot unseat an elected peoples representative "…that means all elected representatives are immune from judicial scrutiny ? which confirms further that courts are only for the rest of the people….& these elected Reps can do whatever they want ? Talat sb….if we hv people like u we do not enemy to derail the democratic system.The present mess is due to people with mindset like u…..daro us din se jab Allah swt aap jese log se puche ga…." u r also an accomplice to the crimes that Mr Jillani committed…..u supported all the wrong actions of Mr Jillani & his govt "…..prepare for an answer.
In the end gillani's body will be dragged in the streets. His end is nearing. Whatever General takes over, I hope they make gillani and his family pay for every single crime. I think there is enough there to hang him ten times over. His lyalties are to zardari, not the country. All the ill gotten wealth will only give him a better funeral if he is lucky. More than likely his body will be eaten by street dogs. Can't wait to see that happen 🙂
watch for ur own filthy body created by ur filthy thinking
Try again. This time ask a fifth grader to help you with your english 🙂 Its not good to act like a clown in public. You may lose your day job at the tandoor 🙂
You are on pay roll of intelligence agencies and u r acting like a mercenary.
Got an answer for zardari/gillani corruption or just practicing writing?
You r going mad and prepare to walk on roads with madness for next 5 years hahaha
AzeemJan, I try very hard to make sense out of your posts but its hard to make sense out of nonsense. Can you try again and rephrase what you're trying to say? As far as anybody walking, you don't need to worry. I have nice rides. Better than your bicycle 🙂
You got your nice rides out of money paid by agencies. I am happy with my bicycle. You keep on enjoying ur illgotten money
You don't need to worry how I made my money. I can only tell you that it wasn't with corruption. Unlike gillani "the pious pir", mine was with hard work. Unlike gillani's son who got his Land Cruiser by robbing hajjis, I paid for mine with my own money that I earned.
Hope Gilani atleast paid you Rs.50 for the support…
More like ten ruppees for a bus ticket to the net cafe 🙂
You seem to be at Jamat e Islami material who see life of their political ideas in a military takeover. What sense you can make out my posts if you have no sense at all. The way ask army to takeover shows your obsolete mentalit and your political leaning to some terrorist outfit.
The thinking depicted in your posts show no political sense at all, rather it shows a kind of THERA mentality easy to be sold for a few bucks.
That shows ur mentality. You think everyone is paid out like you.
I have yet to find one single defense for zardari/gillani corruption in your posts. All I hear is that everybody else has done it. If that is the only defense you can come up with then I feel sorry for you. You have a dark future. You will never amonut to anything and live the rest of your life being a blind follower. Unless you learn to stand up for yourself and think with your own "independent" mind, you will never grow as person who can be taken serious. Defending corruption only shows me that you aspire to be just as corrupt as your political leaders. It aslo shows me that you are not in a position to make dirty money yet. Chances are you never will be. Peons don't make much. You know why? Because they are peons 🙂 I did not want it to go down this road but since you started it you need to remember that the door swings both ways!!!
It is not your fault but it is fault of the martial law periods that you grew up in. Noise and chaos in democracy are a usuall. In India it is much more than Pakistan. But since u grew up in dictatorship, your political education is lackin, and u cant understand the dynamics and the forces that influence political process. You become worried at the seemingly messy situation. In I know many middle class Indians who r worried abt mammoth corruption in India and dishonesty of Indian politicians more than u but non of them invites army. Four years are nothing in the life of nations. The West took 200years to mature its democracy.
And your defense for corruption is………..??? You keep talking about things that are totally irrelevent to gillani's corruption. Would you rather compare the country under a dictatorship and a democracy? I am very open to that debate 🙂
Dont make so much noise over corruption. it is more of a political stunt of opposition and anti-democracy forces. This slogan has always been used in past 65 years in pakistan to subvert democracy. Even sincere leaders like Suhervardy were maligned and disqualified for false corruption charges. Those who opposed Rental Power did an enemy's act to Pakistan. Becoz as a result of closure of RPP, our industry suffered thousands of billion rupees loss. What sky had fallen if one or two persons took 3-4 billion rupees, look at the mammoth loss to industry that it has done. In such projects bribery is done in all developing countries including China. Bangladesh is setting up 40 RPPs. In pakistan opposition used this as a slogan to subvert the govt.
Are you saying that its ok to take bribes and be corrupt? Shows your patriotism. Today they'll take bribes for RPP"s, tomorrows they'll take bribes for selling our nuclear secrets. Do you understand the implications? People like you are the reason that Pakitan does not progress. Mindset like yours, which accepts corruption as part of doing business, is whats destroying the country. This kind of thinking is dangerous and detrimental to Pakistan. No wonder you have never been able to come up with one single justification for gillani's corruption. People like you are destroying Pakistan.
Besides all your comments are personal and depict a typical middle class or upper middle class psuedo personality. It shows a middle class profession born in some posh area of Lahore or surroundings and completely lacking in political IQ. Your ideas are time-warped and are destined to fail becoz u run against time. You oppose democracy and invite dictatorship. You want to treat illness by murdering the patient. What martial law has given Pakistan in the past. Why cant u learn from history? Look at your hollow comments; all personal and biased, with nothing showing any maturity
Let me explain the abc of democracy to you. You elect a person from your local area who lives in your neighborhood and understands the local problems and needs and you send him/her to the provincial or national assembly. While representing you there, he/she works to solve your local/neighborhood problems. If they fail to deliver, you kick them out by not voting for them the next time. If you want to see how our "democracy" works, just go to the parliament's web site. You will find that people who live in Lahore are winning elections from Pindi or Peshawar. Do you think they will represent those people in parliament? Ofcourse not. They don't live there and they don't understand their needs. So much for democracy 🙂 They are only there to plunder.
And I am still waiting for you justification for corruption. You have not presented one single point to justify you support for corruption or democracy. The second biggest economy in the world, China, does not have democracy and yet look at the progress they have made.
What senseless arguments are being given. Everyone knows that in civilised world they leave the office even if they r just trailed in the court . Mr prime minister u hv just qouted a single example of mr clinton but if u see the history u will certainly find hundreds of examples that went the other way and where people left their offices for just minor crimes.
Mr. Tahir, Does all other things in our society match with the West? Utter poverty, religious bigotry, fanatic attitudes, feudal mentality, mud-houses, 80% people without water, 5% above high school education, 1% university educated people. And whatever university educated people we have, look at their comments here. In what respect we can match with the West?
Well done Mr Prime Minister for not the fulfilling the wishes of biased and vindictive judges.
Mr Kashan….pls read my reply to Mr Talat`s comment…same applies to u too…..
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