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ISLAMABAD - All heavyweights of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) are most likely to stay with their subjects in the new federal cabinet but Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira is likely to be given some other responsibility while Water and Power Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf may be shown the door.
A source in the PPP told Pakistan Today that the top leadership is looking for some promising replacement for Kaira who could be exposed equally to the local and foreign media while

LAHORE - PML-N Senator Pervaiz Rasheed has said that PPP ministers should resign and then stage a sit-in as long as they want. "The Punjab government will remain unhurt as it has majority in the House," he told Pakistan Today. He said that the Punjab government was safe and in no danger.
Rasheed said PPP Senior Minister Raja Riaz was a "hilarious man and his 19-point agenda is a joke as well". To a question, he said Nawaz Sharif had not yet received any agenda from PPP ministers.

LAHORE - PPP Punjab Senior Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad said on Sunday that Pakistan People's Party provincial ministers would stage a sit-in outside the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday if the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif did not respond to the 19-point agenda presented by the party.
Talking to the reporters, he said the Pakistan People's Party had been trying to point out various issues to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for the last three years, but not a single

ISLAMABAD - As President Asif Ali Zardari called a meeting of the party's central executive committee (CEC) today (Friday), it triggered speculations in the federal capital that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani would dissolve his cabinet within 24 hours and form a small team of 15 to 20 ministers.
However, no one confirmed the report. "Broadly speaking, the political situation with emphasis on latest events of significance will be the agenda of the CEC meeting. You may draw your

ISLAMABAD - The issue of Raymond Davis, our mole said, worried President Asif Zardari the most and he visibly looked flustered while chairing the meeting of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s core committee on Tuesday night as he shared with his close aides the enormity of external and internal pressure he was faced with after the Lahore incident.
"It is a difficult situation," the president was quoted as saying while referring to the arrest of the American citizen who had

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday refused a proposal by a party MPA to allow the party leadership to sit on the opposition benches and try to topple the government of PML-N in Punjab with the help of the PML-Q legislators, saying the PPP would not weaken the PML-N government.
"Ruling Punjab is a right of the PML-N and it was me who had asked Nawaz Sharif soon after the 2008 elections to use his right to form a government in Punjab. Now we should not weaken the

ISLAMABAD - In its core committee meeting today (Tuesday), the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will take a final decision on whether the cabinet should be dissolved or not. President Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the party, is being advised not to go ahead with the plan at a time when the government is already facing problems and its intention to right-size the cabinet has already got on the nerves of the incumbents for possibly losing ministerial slots in the exercise.
"The

KARACHI - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government has decided to avoid becoming a part of any controversy with the Supreme Court (SC) over the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam after a Federal Investigation Agency investigation linked a federal minister and officials of the Commerce Ministry to the case.
Sources told Pakistan Today that the government has given the green signal to the FIA officials to arrest FIA DG Waseem Ahmed and other influential

ISLAMABAD - While a lot of concerns are being expressed at all political, security and diplomatic levels about the increasing presence of US diplomats and their unchecked movement across the country, a PPP legislator on Friday dropped a bombshell in the National Assembly by accusing Interior Minister Rehman Malik of making efforts for the release of the US national involved in killing of two Pakistani youth in Lahore.
An alarming situation developed in the National Assembly when

ISLAMABAD - The talks between the government and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) failed to make progress on Wednesday, as unseen barriers cropped up stopping the forward movement on the implementation of the 10-points agenda given by the main opposition party for its support on the economic reforms.
Talks were held between the government's team led by Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, and the PML-N team led by Senator Ishaq Dar. After the second round of talks on

LAHORE - Pakistan People's party (PPP) does not feel threatened by the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid and Mutahhida Qaumi Movement nexus in Punjab because it has the public's unflinching support.
The leaders of PPP expressed these views while recording reaction over the newly-established alliance of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) and Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
They, however, said every political party has the right to establish liaison with like-minded parties and the

KARACHI - PPP leader Agha Javed Pathan, who became famous after hitting former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim with a shoe, is annoyed with his party's top leaders for delaying the opening of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical College (SBBMC) in Lyari.
"The ongoing fight among PPP leaders over the appointment of their favourite principal is delaying the opening of this important medical college," said Pathan, adding that he was recently appointed as public relation

Islamabad - The Pakistan People's party core committee late on Friday took stock of the country's economic and political situation, also considering a reshuffle in the federal cabinet on the basis of the performance of the ministers.
A source informed Pakistan Today that the meeting held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr also reviewed the law and order situation in the country, especially in Karachi and Quetta.
The meeting, which continued until the filing of this report, took serious

PESHAWAR - Though PPP high command has finalised the name of Barrister Masud Kausar for the office of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa governor, but Awami National Party leadership is in favour of a non-controversial figure for the slot.
Pakistan Today learnt through highly reliable sources the PPP leadership had decided with consensus to post Barrister Masud Kausar as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa governor. Besides Barrister Masud Kausar, MPA from Lakki Marwat Anwar Saif Ullah Khan was also amongst the

ISLAMABAD - Calling the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) a "cowardly party" for not standing by their leaders in difficult times, PML-Q central leaders on Wednesday put the ruling party to shame for not defending slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer against extremists.
A source told Pakistan Today that a five-member government committee called on PML-Q leaders at Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's residence to inform them of the economic situation in the country, but faced severe criticism

ISLAMABAD - The nominees of the PPP and the PML-N are set to meet today (Tuesday) with the latter already conveying its doubts to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on the inclusion of tainted ministers in the PPP committee holding talks to eliminate corruption.
A PML-N source informed Pakistan Today that Nawaz Sharif had conveyed his party's reservations over the inclusion of three corrupt ministers in his team, including Raja Parvez Ashraf, Babar Awan, and Naveed Qamar.