Playing down Mansoor Ijaz’s arrival to Pakistan, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday said he was no “viceroy” to demand being provided security by the military.
Talking to reporters after offering condolences to Amjad Kareem Randhawa, father of late Arfa Kareem, Gilani said it was the duty of the Interior Ministry to provide him security, but the protocol demanded was not allowed to any common man by the constitution. He said by giving such significance to the “memogate” and Mansoor Ijaz, “we are giving altogether a wrong image of Pakistan that the governments here are so feeble that they cannot withstand allegations made in a newspaper article”.
Gilani said the government would consider the matter of awarding Arfa Nishan-e-Imtiaz, the highest civil award. He said his government would cooperate with both parliamentary committee for national security and the judicial commission probing into the memo scandal. To a question regarding resignation of Hussain Haqqani, he said Haqqani was still innocent as no charge had been proven against him.
He said no memo was dangerous for the country, but the message being conveyed to the world about our institutional weaknesses was dangerous. To a question about Pak-US relations, the prime minister said building friendly relations with every country was the main objective of Pakistan’s foreign policy.
He denied that Aitzaz Ahsan had demanded excluding or including “somebody” from the cabinet before agreeing to be his attorney. He discouraged the criticism of Aitzaz, saying he was doing a duty of professional lawyer only. Gilani said only the Pakistan People’s Party would decide on including Babar Awan in cabinet or not. Glorifying his government’s “successes”, he said it was for the first time in the political history of Pakistan that there was no political prisoner. He said the PML-N was not at all a friendly opposition and it was the opposition’s duty to point out the mistakes of government, which in return was supposed to accept criticism open heartedly. To a question on Jamaat-e-Islami’s warning of staging a sit-in outside parliament if NATO supply line was restored, he said NATO supply was stopped in the larger interest of the country not on demand of the JI and whatever decision was taken in the future would also be for the sake of the country.
PM is a potential idiot in making….
He is a bona fide idiot and not an idiot in making or otherwise a bad faith crook of a very high order. He will turn his back and say that we acted on the the advice we received.
Justices please note.
So who are the potential or bona fied smarts in your opinion?
(only opinion please – in your case, argument or logic does won't count)
international law calls for protection of witnesses from abroad
@ Jamshed, protection should be accorded to every citizen, unfortunately that security is yet to be felt by the common man.
govt is now afraid:)
so your color is 🙂
Afraid is a mild description. They are Sh***t scared.
I dont see whats wrong to hear what Mansoor has to say on this whole issue, coz what I believe is there can not be any smoke without fire… so once and for all, lets get it over with this and lets find out who is the rat in all this drama…
That is the million dollar question. And, I suspect we will never know the answer. The truth is always somewhere in the middle.
Did you expect hearing Mansoor for a couple of days would clear all the smoke?
Second last line:
proud of Pakistan or pride of Pakistan?
Mansoor Ijaz is preparing to come Pakistan. Shahbaz Sharif is in London. Now, Nawaz Sharif has also rushed to London. This is extremely significant.
Media is unavailable for a duration. Best time for a political vacation, I guess…
hang all PPP idiots and this country will take a sigh of relief.
U will always keep dreaming this fascist dream
ABCD idiots asked to know your neck size…
Fascist dream will never realize. Mr PM u stand by your words, we will stand with you.
Mr.Gilani is honest,simple and intelligent person,only fools and block headed criticize him.
Last couple of months, he is going around quite smartly with high political aptitude, I think.
(I am not a fan of Gilani though)
Pakistan's corrupt ARMY and CORRUPT JUDICIARY should provide security to journalists,this corrupt judiciary is releasing terrorists but worries about a clown's security.
Idiot
We have enough PPP/MQM/PML-Q/PML-N/ANP Viceroys already. Their security and protocol would shame The President of the USA!
But the real message of Gilani's idiotic statement is to tell Ijaz that he is a marked man. They couldn't (or wouldn't) protect BB what chance does someone talking against them have?
PM just does not know what he is saying (PM is an known idot)!
He is an Politician let loose —he will take seconds to go back on his statement .
BASELINE of Gillani and Malik statements- Mansoor Ijaz should not come to Pakistan. STAY AWAY because we are clean?
The closest association that came to his mind was with a "Viceroy". The feudal mindset, these people think they are viceroys in their own right.
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