Tag: Zardari

LARKANA - President Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday that the technocrats and experts sitting in drawing rooms could not understand the problems of the people as they could not think like politicians and were not answerable to the people and history.
Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) would support women to set up businesses and become productive citizens of society. While addressing a function arranged by the BISP here to give away cheques to women for starting of

LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari has taken serious notice of gas supply suspension to the textile industry and has constituted a committee to oversee gas load management of SNGPL. The president has mandated that any further gas load-shedding would require approval from the committee. Referring to the meeting's decision dated March 28, 2011, the President Secretariat has constituted a committee comprising of Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khurshid Shah, Raja Pervez Ashraf,

LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari met Law Minister Babar Awan on Thursday and decided that the reference to reopen the Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto case would be filed on April 2 (tomorrow), a private TV channel reported. Awan had announced last week that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would file a reference in the Supreme Court (SC) to reopen the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto case and the federal cabinet had approved the decision.Awan had said that the PPP was expecting a response similar to the

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday expressed satisfaction on the outcome of the recent meeting between Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh and hoped that joint efforts would pave the way for resolution of all outstanding issues between the two archrivals. The prime minister called on the president and briefed him on his one-day visit to Mohali for the Cricket World Cup semi-final between Pakistan and India, on the sidelines of

KARACHI - Commenting on President Asif Ali Zardari's statement that he wants to strengthen government institutions, Sindh National Front Chairman Nawab Mumtaz Ali Bhutto said on Tuesday that this was a big joke as he [the president] has destroyed every institution in the country by removing honest, efficient officers and replacing them with corrupt, inefficient and disreputable officers.
"The state of thriving public-owned enterprises such as Pakistan Steel Mills, Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday the government did not want a clash of the institutions and that "democracy is the best revenge". "We strengthened the institutions by giving more powers to parliament and we are willing to work and fight for a better democracy," Zardari said at the 21st All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) award distribution ceremony at Aiwan-e-Sadr. The president said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) did not take the path of aggression

ISLAMABAD - In a major diplomatic initiative, India invited President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday to watch the Cricket World Cup semi-final match between Pakistan and India in Mohali on March 30, with Islamabad confirming the invitation.
A source saying that one of the two leaders, most probably the prime minister, would take the opportunity to meet his Indian counterpart and informally exchange views on the recently resumed full-spectrum

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) that came into power through political strength, power of votes and support of the masses, would sit in opposition if it lost the masses' support.
"We will remain in power until we have the support of masses... until we have political strength and force... until we have power of votes. It is our right," he remarked while addressing a function on the Pakistan Sweet Home, organised by

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari expressed concern about political unrest in Gulf nations on Friday but ruled out the possibility of such a situation emerging in Pakistan.
"I don't think such political unrest can reach Pakistan, as it is a different country that has a strong parliament and a stable democracy," the president said in an interview with Al-Arabia news channel. Zardari said the restive nations could not be compared with Pakistan because the country was created

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Friday condemned the recent incident of the deliberate desecration of the Holy Quran by a fanatic in Florida and discussed bilateral relations besides the political situation in the Middle East and the Arab world.
These matters were discussed in a meeting between Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Secretary-General of National Security Council of Saudi Arabia, and President Asif Ali Zardari at the Presidency.
The meeting

ISLAMABAD - US Senator John Kerry told President Asif Zardari in 2010 that the US might consider civilian nuclear assistance to Pakistan if Islamabad was able to enter into a security arrangement with India and also strengthens its democratic institutions, according to a memo released by WikiLeaks.
Senator Kerry told this to President Zardari in a meeting held on February 16, 2010, said the diplomatic memo sent to Washington by the then ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson on

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari told US congressmen on Thursday to play their role in urging the United Nations and the international community to work out plans to promote cultural and religious harmony in order to stop the decline of rationality and sanity.
In a meeting with a US congressional delegation led by House Armed Services Committee Member Rob Wittman at Aiwan-e-Sadr, the president once again condemned the burning of the Holy Quran by what he described as a

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has made it clear that no compromise would be made on national security, adding that, government would fulfill the needs of country's armed forces for fight against terrorism. The president expressed these views while talking to Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on the sideline of the reception hosted in the honor of award winners at Presidency on Wednesday, sources informed Online.

LAHORE - The Indian External Affairs Ministry may have inadvertently caused some of the confusion over a hoax call to President Asif Ali Zardari that escalated tensions between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks in 2008, Indian newspaper The Hindu reported on Wednesday. Pretending to be India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the caller had conveyed threats of an imminent military response to the attacks, said the newspaper. Exactly a year later,

ISLAMABAD - Without naming the armed forces and the judiciary, President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday said the government would not let anyone undermine the supremacy of the constitution and parliament and invited all political parties for a national dialogue.
"We will not permit anyone to usurp the powers that rightly belong to parliament. We believe that all state organs should work within their parameters. We need to build a national consensus and tough decisions must be taken

ISLAMABAD - Rumpus is expected as President Asif Ali Zardari addresses a joint sitting of both houses of parliament for the fourth consecutive year today (Tuesday) amid announcements by major opposition parties to either walk out of the session or registering protests on the government's failure to deal with national and public issues. Zardari is going to make history as he would be the only democratically-elected president to address parliament for the fourth time.
Though the

KARACHI - President Asif Zardari on Sunday stepped in to soothe concerns in Karachi as at least 11 people were killed by unidentified assailants in a fresh spate of targeted killings in various part of the city, with Muttahida Qaumi Movement Rabita Committee Convener Farooq Sattar saying the party's patience was beginning to run out with the killings.
A private TV channel reported that Zardari told Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah to take stern action against those