Tag: Gilani

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari and his Pakistan People's Party on Monday extended full support to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani through thick and thin, as the prime minister faces a loss of majority in the National Assembly following the departure of the JUI-F and MQM from the coalition.
"The president expressed full confidence and solidly stands behind him in foiling any attempt to destabilise the coalition government," said a statement quoting the president,

ISLAMABAD - As the country's political drama approaches a climax, the JUI-F wants to take the move it started for the removal of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to its logical end and is striving hard to form a JUIF-PMLQ-MQM bloc to worsen the miseries of the crumbling PPP government.
The alliance-in-the-making would also put the biggest opposition party, the PML-N, in isolation and fix it on the question whether it should let the PPP government stay under the pretext of

ISLAMABAD - A raucous National Assembly session awaits Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Petroleum Minister Naveed Qamar today (Monday), as the opposition, as well as the government's coalition partners, are set to give them a tough time over the recent POL price hike.
Sources in the PML-N, PML-Q, MQM and JUI-F told Pakistan Today that these parties might also stage token walkouts from the House to register their protest over the government's decision, which has sparked

KARACHI - As the political scenario has been turned upside down, the ruling party has to decide a new prime minister in case a no-confidence vote against Yousaf Raza Gilani succeeds in the parliament.
Sources told Pakistan Today that Makhdoom Shahabuddin is likely to be nominated by the PPP as the new prime minister of the country. The sources said the former federal finance minister and close aide of PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Shahab would be nominated the new prime

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani urged the nation to get united for people's welfare, country's security and for the promotion of democracy.
In his New Year message, the prime minister congratulated the nation on the arrival of New Year and prayed to Allah to save the nation from natural disasters and keep it on the path of progress.
"Nations do face good and bad times and wisdom demands that humans should devise their future strategy in the light of their past

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday defended the personnel of the army and other law-enforcement agencies, saying they were not involved in extra-judicial killings and the foreign media was trying to malign the image of Pakistani institutions through its malicious campaign.
Speaking in the National Assembly, the prime minister rejected foreign media reports that claimed that the Pakistani security agencies had violated human rights. "In the meetings of the

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of ANP senators met Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday, asking him to tell his ministers that senators were not someone to be trifled with.
"We have told the prime minister that his ministers do not give us due respect and do not take the business of the Upper House seriously. They do not consider the Senate worth-while," Haji Adeel told Pakistan Today after the meeting.
Adeel said the delegation asked Gilani to announce a development

MUSCAT - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday denied any communication gap with India on the resolution of the Kashmir dispute and other outstanding issues, asking New Delhi not to hold the dialogue process hostage to the Mumbai incident.
Talking to reporters, Gilani said, "The impression should be dispelled that there is a lack of communication [between Pakistan and India]," adding however that there was a lack of trust. Mentioning his talks with his Indian counterpart

Lahore - Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) President Dr Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair has said that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has nothing to do with the proposed changes in blasphemy law.
"It is President Zardari who is more interested in the changes, as if trying to fulfill his commitments, which he made with Pope Benedict in Vatican, last September," he said in an exclusive interview with Pakistan Today.
Dr Zubair talked about different issues including the

MUSCAT - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani reached Muscat on Monday on a two-day visit and was warmly received at the Muscat International Airport.
On the airport, personal representative of the Sultan Assad bin Tariq al-Said received the PM while a contingent of Royal Oman Police presented a salute to him.
The PM will have an audience with the Sultan Qaboos bin Al-Said at the official retreat of Bait-al Barka Palace and hold talks with the Omani leaders on Tuesday.