Tag: PM Gilani

Coalition partners and the top Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership agreed on Friday to adopt a safe route and take action against Defence Secretary...

But how to make that smell go away? Conventional wisdom says that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, talks like a...

Now, eyeball to eyeball Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani – usually soft spoken and compromise-seeking – thunderously declaring “there can be no state within a...

They run the show still… That the armed forces and the ISI constitute a state within a state is no secret. That they intend to...

The curse of interesting times The prime minister is a mild-mannered man. Even his worst detractors – and there are many – admit to the...

Hell hath no fury like the establishment scorned The battle lines have been drawn. All the usual suspects of the ultra right are in the...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday submitted his reply, over Babar Awan and other ministers’ press conference after the Supreme Court hearing,...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said Pakistan wanted new rules of engagement with the United States with a guarantee to respect...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday said the conspiracies being hatched by some elements against the democratic government were aimed at avoiding the...

The rumours of political change at the top that skyrocketed in the last couple of days finally started dying down in the federal capital...

With the tension over the “memogate” scandal apparently defused, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday said there was no confrontation between the army...

Time to back down While the common man in Pakistan is harassed by ever increasing economic woes, lawlessness and uncertainty about the country’s security after...

Why make a bad situation worse? Either he kept contradicting himself or his claims were being constantly refuted. Mansoor Ijaz must have been happy to...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani made it clear to US Ambassador Cameron Munter on Friday that Pakistan’s “red lines” should be respected and the...

As the memo issue continues to rip through Pakistan’s politics, the developments on Friday suggested that the situation, which had apparently been seen as...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday said the flood-hit areas would be reconstructed and developed per the commitment of the government. He was responding...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani expressed his annoyance over the slow pace of utilisation of Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) financing facility of $...