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ISLAMABAD - Federal Law Minister Babar Awan on Monday said the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would not let the provincial government fall and derailment of democracy in the Punjab, if Nawaz Sharif realised the mistake of indulging in horse-trading and get rid of his advisors promoting floor-crossing in the province. "People make mistakes and if they realise their mistakes, they should be forgiven.
If Nawaz Sharif realising the mistake gets rid of his advisors involved in

KARACHI - The PPP government has always promoted positive steps to maintain peace in South Asia and done its best to normalise relations between Pakistan and India, Sindh government's Media Coordinator Taj Haider said on Monday.
"The Simla Accord is evident of the political intellect of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto," he added.
He said this while talking to a delegation of Pakistan Peace Coalition (PPC) Sindh chapter which included Sharafat Ali, BM Kuti, Amtul Hassan, Latif

LAHORE - Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Chaudhary Zaheer-ud-Din has announced that whenever Pakistan People's party (PPP) will join opposition benches, he will resign from the post following the Pervaiz Elahi's precedent. While talking to the journalists on Monday outside Punjab Assembly building, Chaudhary Zaheer-ud-Din said that lotacracy was a menace and added that the party had prepared references against the lotas of the party as they had not responded to the show -cause

LAHORE - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani told reporters at his residence here on Sunday that the Pakistan People's Party would continue its policy of reconciliation for Pakistan's security and sovereignty and to strengthen the parliament and democratic institutions.
Gilani said that he had been doing consistent politics and amassing power had never been his target. The PM said the PPP would continue to play its role constructively whether it was in the government or in the

KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari told a meeting of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leaders at Bilawal House on Sunday that it was sad that politics of "horse-trading" had been adopted by friends in Punjab but the PPP would defend democracy and would not take the path of confrontation.
The PPP was a democratic party, he said, and would not like to use undemocratic means in a difficult time because it did not want to harm the democratic system. The president vowed that the party

GUJRANWALA - Pakistan People's Party will play an active and effective role of opposition in the Punjab after the decision of PML-N to part ways with the party. This was stated by PPP Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warraich while talking to media on his arrival in the city.
He regretted that PML-N was going to form a new Punjab government with the help of 47 turncoats. He said now PPP would see how PML-N succeeded in decreasing the prices of chicken, eggs and vegetables etc.

LAHORE - The exclusion of the Pakistan People's Party from the Punjab government was the "call of workers," Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday. Addressing PML-N workers from Hazara, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, and Peshawar divisions at his Model Town residence, Nawaz said that the PML-N would have supported the PPP-led government had it resolved the problems of the people.
Nawaz said a revolutionary team to enforce a revolutionary agenda was in

ISLAMABAD - Apparently following a policy of reconciliation and engagement with all political parties, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has decided to pitch two major factions of the PML - Nawaz and Quaid - against each other not only for a political gain in Punjab but also to shift the public's attention from the issue of Raymond Davis.
A PPP insider informed Pakistan Today that the government was mulling a strategy to divert focus from the Davis' issue and its break up with

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has sent a summary to Governor Latif Khosa for the ouster of ministers belongs to the Pakistan People's Party from the Punjab cabinet. However, sources in the Governor's House denied receiving any such summary.
As per details, Chief Minister Shahbaz on Saturday sent an advice to the governor for the ouster of six PPP ministers from the provincial cabinet. A private TV channel reported Governor Khosa as saying that he would act in

LAHORE - Law Minister Babar Awan has said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would respond to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) after the PPP ministers' removal from the Punjab cabinet. He said the rulers in "Punjab must keep in mind that PPP will not let any one highjack democracy with the help of turncoats". He reiterated that the PPP would not allow rule of turncoats in Punjab.
He said there were many clauses in the constitution that obstruct lotacracy.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif formally announced his party's decision to part ways with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Friday and said that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif would most likely dissolve the provincial cabinet to form a new one that would exclude PPP ministers.
Following a five-hour meeting of the party's executive council to discuss future strategies, Nawaz told a press conference that the decision to part ways with the PPP in

LAHORE - In response to the PML-N's decision to part ways with the PPP in Punjab, PPP leaders on Friday renewed their pledge to continue politics of reconciliation in the province. However, other political forces called the move "a start of a new power game in Punjab".
Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower Khurshid Shah said the PPP would play the opposition's role in Punjab, adding however, that it would continue its policy of reconciliation. He said PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif

SIALKOT - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has planned to show its power in the district as senior PPP leaders, the AJK president, the Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister and Makhdoom Amin Fahim, will address public meetings here.
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Raja Zulqarnain, Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah and Federal Industries Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim will jointly inaugurate several socio-economic development and public welfare-oriented projects worth

KARACHI - The Sindh government can summon the Army to provide factory owners with security in industrial areas, claimed Sindh Law Minister Ayaz Soomro on Thursday at the Sindh Assembly session in response to a point of order raised by MQM leader and Industries Minister Rauf Siddiqui.
Siddiqui had argued that the lives of industrialists in the SITE area were unsafe, with a businessman named Waqas also being murdered three days ago and many others receiving life threats.