Tag: Zardari

KARACHI - The proposed Gul Train between Islamabad and Turkey, named after the Turkish president, moved a step forward on Friday as a Turkish delegation led by Prof Dr Guven Sak, head of Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Bilawal House Karachi. The delegation told the president that the pre-feasibility study of the project would be completed by Zardari's forthcoming visit to Turkey in April. Turkish Ambassador in Islamabad Mustafa

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution to acknowledge the efforts of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chief, President Asif Ali Zardari, and Mutaahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain for politically uniting the people of Sindh.
PPP's Bachal Shah had moved the resolution after the MQM's members ended their boycott and were present in the house to participate the proceedings. Earlier, Sindh Finance Minister Murad Ali Shah welcomed MQM

KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the Pakistan People's Party will play the role of a responsible opposition in Punjab and will not do anything to destabilise the provincial government or weaken democracy in any way.
Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that President Zardari said this during a telephonic address from the Bilawal House to PPP Punjab MPs who had gathered at the Governor's House Lahore on Wednesday. He said the president also advised the

LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari has expeditiously issued directions on the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) proposals regarding an increase in cotton production and availability of energy to the industry.
It may be noted that APTMA Chairman Gohar Ejaz had presented textile's vision to the president, on behalf of the textile industry, during APTMA's annual dinner in the presidency on February 11, 2011. The textile vision includes short and long term measures to

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-N's Siddiqul Farooq on Monday alleged that President Asif Ali Zardari was involved in Benazir Bhutto's murder and that Rehman Malik and Babar Awan were his accomplices. He went on to say the Zardari 'tried his best' to remove all proofs his involvement in the murder. Addressing a press conference here, Farooq said Benazir Bhutto had security concerns and felt threat from Musharraf and the Chaudhrys.
"But President Zardari has sent one of them in

KARACHI - President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday asked the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) body on the proposed all-parties conference to step up the process of consultation with political parties so that the conference could be held at the earliest.
The president, who is also the PPP co-chairman, was presiding over a meeting of the party's Central Executive Committee (CEC) at the Bilawal House. Those who attended the meeting included Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Qaim Ali Shah, Senator Raza

ISLAMABAD - Pointing his guns solely at President Asif Zardari, National Assembly Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Sunday that Zardari was bent on sacrificing the country, democracy, law, judiciary and even his own party's government at altar of his desires.
Nisar told reporters at a press conference that the rulers did not like the independence of the judiciary at all. "The decisions of the superior courts are being ridiculed as the rulers just want to implement

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday telephoned PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif in London to inquire about his wife's health. Zardari prayed for the early recovery of Nawaz's wife.
The PML-N chief thanked the president for the kind gesture and for sending Pakistan's High Commissioner to UK Wajid Shamsul Hassan to receive him and his family at the London airport.

KARACHI - PPP Co-chairman and President Asif Ali Zardari has said that some people were working to "take away our political space", calling it against the 18th Amendment and in view of the Senate election in March next year.
Chairing a meeting of the PPP Sindh parliamentary committee on Saturday, Zardari said he had convened the meeting to discuss the country's immediate issues and the challenges faced by the federation and the province.The president said he had sent a written

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday night told PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain that he was greatly indebted to him, because he as the interior minister in Nawaz Sharif's second government had supported him by saying that the narcotics case framed against Zardari had been fabricated and baseless. A source privy to the meeting between Zardari and Shujaat told Pakistan Today that when Shujaat thanked the president for not creating a rift in the PML-Q, Zardari

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Friday assured President Asif Ali Zardari of not letting the PPP coalition government fall and joining the coalition in case the MQM pulled out of the ruling alliance.
Shujaat had led a delegation of PML-Q leaders to meet Zardari at the Presidency late on Friday. However, the PPP-PML-Q power sharing talks remained inconclusive with Zardari insisting the PML-Q enter into a formal alliance at the Centre

LAHORE - A four-member full bench of the Lahore High Court on Thursday reserved judgment in petitions challenging President Asif Ali Zardari's dual office.
The petitions were filed by Advocate AK Dogar from the Pakistan Lawyers Forum (PLF), Engineer Ghulam Jillani and Advocate Asif Mehmood Khan. The petitioners sought Zardari's disqualification on the grounds that he, being state president, could not hold office as co-Pakistan People's Party's co-chairman. The court conducted

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari proposed a currency swap arrangement between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in a meeting on proposed currency swap arrangements with friendly countries here at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Thursday, in order to reduce pressure on the foreign exchange reserves of both countries. The president urged swift finalisation of the currency swap agreement between Pakistan and China, saying that such arrangements should be concluded with Turkey and Sri Lanka to promote and

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari told United Kingdom (UK) National Security Adviser Sir Peter Ricketts at President House on Tuesday that any initiative on Afghanistan should ensure territorial integrity of the country and the Afghan ownership of the process with a commitment that their country's soil would not be used against another. "Pakistan stands for a peaceful, stable, friendly and united Afghanistan, as Pakistan is directly impacted by any development relating to

ISLAMABAD - Amid reports of the arrival of two leading legal experts from the US to provide legal assistance to Raymond Davis, US Ambassador Cameron P Munter on Saturday met President Asif Ali Zardari at the presidency to discuss the Pak-US joint efforts to resolve the Davis issue.
A well-placed source informed Pakistan Today that the two discussed possible strategies to repatriate Davis, under trial for killing two Pakistanis in Lahore in January. "The two countries are trying

KARACHI - The breaches in the Torhi Dyke are lo longer left to provincial ministers: President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday flew from Karachi to Kashmore to inspect the plugging of breaches in the dyke, and after inspecting the state of affairs, ordered Irrigation Minister Jam Saifullah Dharejo to submit a weekly progress report to him.
Dharejo had informed President Zardari that repair works on the Torhi Dyke would take another two months more, according to a press release

LAHORE - All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz thanked President Asif Ali Zardari for immediately restoring gas to textile industries in Punjab and ensuring prompt compliance of the directive.
Addressing a news conference, here on Thursday, along with SNGPL Deputy Managing Director Shariq and APTMA office-bearers, Gohar Ejaz said that Faisalabad had been given preference in restoration of five weeks gas supply to industries in Punjab on the APTMA's