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ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani told parliamentarians at the Parliament House on Friday that despite the Pakistan Muslim League-N's grievances against the Pakistan People's Party-led government, it would continue to follow its policy of reconciliation.
"This (reconciliation) policy has introduced a new political culture of tolerance and cooperation in the democratic system. We will continue the policy of taking all political forces on board on national issues,

NEWS ANALYSIS - Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif finally announced his party's split with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in Punjab on Friday. While certainly dealing a blow to the PPP and its recent reconciliatory efforts, the PML-N leader stopped short of announcing an all-out war against the PPP for the time being.
The message from Sharif's press conference - where he announced the decision to part ways with the PPP, blaming President Asif Ali Zardari for leaving

LAHORE - The PML-N supported the PPP-led government with sincerity and good intention but in reward, President Asif Ali Zardari inflicted several injuries to the party during the last three years, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday.
Addressing PML-N workers from Dera Ghazi Khan and Bahawalpur divisions at his Model Town residence, Nawaz said, "We supported the PPP-led government with sincerity and good intention but in reward, President Asif Ali Zardari incurred several

KARACHI - The primary teachers removed from their service in 1995-96 by then PML-N government on Thursday warned of self-immolation if they are not reinstated to their jobs.
The protesting teachers - hailing from the Sindh chief minister's native town Khairpur - were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans and chanted slogans against the government's authorities.
Talking to newsmen, the teachers said that they were appointed as primary teachers in 1995-96 but

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is set to decide in a meeting today whether or not to continue its alliance with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in Punjab, as well as to determine its future course of action following an increasingly sour fall-out with the PPP.
With the extended deadline to implement the PML-N's 10-point reforms agenda expiring today, the organising committee of the PML-N will discuss the party's future strategy vis-a-vis the PPP with two

ISLAMABAD - In an uncharacteristic outburst, perhaps reflective of the recent rise in tensions between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the latter's deadline to implement economic reforms, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday sharply rebuked PML-N National Assembly Member (MNA) Abid Sher Ali for accusing the government of not ensuring a steady supply of natural gas to industrial units in Punjab.
"I think this is a very

LAHORE - All eyes are set upon the PML-N's crucial meeting in Islamabad today (Friday) that will likely decide the fate of politics of reconciliation and of PPP's ministers in the Punjab government. Following the failure of the PML-N and PPP teams to arrive at a conclusion over the 10-point agenda, the workers referendum, held by Nawaz Sharif in Model Town on Thursday, opposed further negotiations with the PPP and supported the PPP's ouster from the Punjab cabinet.
As a last

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) should stop hatching conspiracies against me and remember that next time there will no room for them to flee the country, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Chaudhry Moonis Elahi said on Thursday.
He was addressing party workers at the Allama Iqbal International Airport after returning to Lahore from abroad. Former Punjab CM Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi's son was given a roaring welcome by party

KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza and PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi's son Moonis Elahi met at the home minister's house on Wednesday where the two decided that if the PML-N expelled PPP ministers from Punjab, the PPP and PML-Q would form a joint opposition, sources said.
Mirza's private secretary and other department officers, along with police and Rangers personnel provided complete protocol to Moonis when he arrived at the Karachi airport from abroad. Moonis was

LAHORE - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP), adopting the wait-and-see policy, will show all of its cards after the final decision of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) regarding ending the coalition in Punjab. The party insiders on Wednesday confided that PPP top leadership has directed its stalwarts to overlook all instigating remarks of PML-N leaders and follow the policy of 'wait and see' till February 25.
It was also learnt that the central leadership of the party has

ISLAMABAD - With the 45-day deadline to implement the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)'s 10-point reforms agenda set to expire on Friday, Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani indicated on Wednesday that the government would continue to follow its policy of engaging political parties without being dictated to.
Speaking to a group of parliamentarians, the PM said that the process of consultation and dialogue should not be held hostage by a deadline because it adversely

KARACHI - A PML-N activist was gunned down by unidentified people in Gulshan-e-Iqbal in the wee hours of Wednesday, police said. Yousuf Baloch, 40, was shot near Rab Medical Centre in Block 13 of Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
He was being taken to the Patel Hospital for treatment but he died on the way. Later, his body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for an autopsy. Police believe that the murder could have been motivated by personal enmity.
In another incident, a

LAHORE - Federal Environment Minister and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Lahore President Samina Khalid Ghurki on Tuesday asked the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to avoid the politics of confrontation.
Talking to journalists at the PPP Lahore Office, she said that the PPP believed in the politics of reconciliation but its workers were ready to respond to any kind of confrontation. She said that a decision on the 10-point agenda of the PML-N would be taken after consultation

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan on Monday said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was violating the Charter of Democracy (CoD) by horse-trading in Punjab. He announced bringing the 19-point reforms agenda of the PPP Punjab's parliamentary party in the committee, which is constituted for the implementation of PML-N's 10-point agenda.
Babar was addressing a press conference in the federal capital during which he was

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Pervaiz Rashid on Monday said that the federal government had failed to respond to six letters written by the Punjab government on the issue of US national Raymond Davis.
He was speaking at the meeting of the Functional Committee on Human Rights.
He deplored that while foreign intelligence agencies operatives were out there killing innocent Pakistanis, nobody knew the whereabouts of the 'killers'.
He demanded that

ISLAMABAD - The government is likely to seek more time from the PML-N for the implementation of its 10-point reforms agenda during the stock taking exercise on Tuesday. PML-N had announced on February 15 that it would hold no more parleys with the government on reforms agenda and would hold stock taking on the implementation of reforms on February 22 to decide its future course of action.
It had categorically linked support to the government's plans for additional revenue

LAHORE - With two days left for the expiration of the timeline given to the government to implement the PML-N 10-point agenda, party chief Nawaz Sharif has called its central organising committee (COC) meeting on February 25. The venue, however, is yet to be will decided.
The Unification Bloc has also been invited to attend the meeting. The meeting is likely to take on board party leaders on the PML-N's future strategy in case the 10-point agenda was unimplemented and will