Gilani orders implementation of SC verdict

[Adeel]

LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani says he has ordered implementation on the Supreme Court's Orders in the National Reconciliation Ordinance Case. However, he maintains that President Asif Zardari has immunity under Article 248 of Pakistan's constitution, a right that only the parliament can take away.

The Prime Minister said the government respects the Supreme Court's verdict on the NRO and has and always will follow the directives of the Supreme Court.

Speaking to the media in Lahore Prime Minister Gilani said that there is no threat to democracy or the system. He says the crises faced by the country are routine and that Pakistan will come out of them safe.

About PPP's relations with the Nawaz League, the Prime Minister said that the government plans to take along PML-N on all issues of national importance. -DawnNews

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[Adeel]

PPP facing threats from pens, snipers: Zardari


By Khwaja Babar Salim

CHAKWAL: President Asif Zardari said on Thursday the Pakistan People?s Party was facing threats from pens and snipers, but such conspiracies would be foiled with the force of the people.

?We cannot be killed by any stroke of the pen, or bayonets,? the president said while addressing a big public gathering after laying the foundation of the Ghabir Dam some 95 kilometres from here. ?The PPP has confronted three dictators and struggled for the restoration of democracy in the country. We did not come into power through the back door. Bhuttoism is a philosophy, and to sacrifice lives is the manifesto of the People?s Party,? he said.

He said Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was judicially murdered and those who were involved in his murder were now admitting openly that they were pressurised. Zardari, who is also the PPP co-chairman, was confident that the party would come up to the expectations of the people.

More than five thousand people participated in the public meeting. The Wapda authorities arranged this event by allegedly spending Rs 5 million. Thousands of people, mostly Wapda employees, were brought in vehicles of Wapda from Tarbela and other areas.

The Ghabir Dam would be constructed at a cost of Rs 6 billion, having a storage capacity of 66,203 acre feet. Thirty thousand acres of land would be irrigated from the dam, which would generate 50MW hydropower.

Water and Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf also addressed the gathering, while Senior Punjab Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad was accompanying the president. State Minister for Defence Production Sardar Salim Haider, ex-adviser to PM Malik Ghulam Jilani Akhtar, MNA Palwasha Behram, MPA Fauzia Behram, ex-MNA Sardar Mansoor Hayat Tamman and Chakwal PPP President Shah Jahan Sarfraz Raja were also present on the occasion. DPO Sabir Ahmad was supervising the security arrangements.

APP adds: President Zardari said conspiracies that began from the times of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto continue to this day and regretted the role of ?political actors? in this regard. The president said Benazir Bhutto was martyred so that she may not become the prime minister. ?Even today a conspiracy of pen is going on against the martyrs (of the PPP),? the president told the crowd that was chanting ?Aik Zardari Sab Pe Bhaari?.

He said history had proven that those who led to the fall of the Benazir Bhutto?s governments were conspirators. ?The history bears testimony to the fact that those who tried to stop Benazir from returning (to Pakistan), dismissed her first government ... these non-state actors have admitted conspiring against the PPP.? Despite all this, Benazir Bhutto served two terms as the prime minister of Pakistan, he added.

?The same allegations were levelled when Benazir Bhutto?s first government was dismissed but the people rejected it.? Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf termed it a historic day for the entire Potohar region and said the dam will bring employment and empowerment to the people of the area.

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That means that what Asif Zardari is saying in essence is that the supreme court is plotting against him by trying to be just?? And we expect the people of Pakistan to be given justice by such a person who thinks he is above the law??
If PPP were actually the champion od democracy it should have offered to the Dupreme court full coopertation and abdicate the right of immunity even if they did have it. Action always speak louder than words!