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KARACHI - Pakistan Muslim League Functional chief Pir Pagara on Saturday stated that the current government would not be able to complete its term and that the military would take over in the year 2012. Speaking to a private TV channel, Pagara said reopening Zulfikar Ali Bhutto case was a legal matter but "of no practical significance".

KARACHI - The army should not be consulted on political matters, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional leader Pir Pagara said at a reception thrown by former provincial minister Imtiaz Shaikh at his residence. "There will be no general elections in Pakistan for the next 20 to 25 years," he added. Pagara said that new criteria of eligibility for vote-casting would be formulated, according to which the right to vote would be given to taxpayers, the affluent and those who are at least

KARACHI - Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) chief Pir Pagara has given his thumbs up to Pakistan People's Party's (PPP) estranged leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi becoming the next prime minister of Pakistan.
"I foresee Shah Mahmood Qureshi as the next prime minister of the country," Pagara said at a crowded press conference held after the meeting on Sunday at the Kingri House between the two leaders. Political pundits had attached much significance to the meeting but Qureshi

KARACHI - There will be a bloody revolution in the country soon, following which every army chief will nominate himself as the president for three years and there will be no general elections for the next 30 to 40 years, PML-F chief Pir Pagara said on Tuesday.
"There will be civilian-disciplined dictatorship," he added. Speaking at a press conference at his residence Kingri House, the spiritual leader of the Hurs said that under the civilian disciplined dictatorship,

KARACHI - The law and order situation in Karachi could be improved if martial law-like steps are taken in the city, spiritual leader of the Hurs and PML-F chief Pir Pagara said on Saturday.
"Impose martial law-like steps in Karachi and the situation will improve. The civil administration has failed [in maintaining law and order], and when this happens, the army comes in," he said in his customary style while talking to journalists after meeting with a PML-Q delegation at his

KARACHI:
Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) chief Pir Pagara has postponed his plan to visit Lahore and meet Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif.
"Pagara was planning to leave for Punjab on October 15, but will now wait until Nawaz returns to Pakistan," Munir Ahmed, spokesmen for Kingri House, told Pakistan Today.
The task of arranging a meeting between Pagara and Nawaz has been handed over to Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood and Pagara is expected to