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Govt to decide polls date: Gilani

Democracy universal choice, Article 58-2b days over, Institutions working as per Const. Problem creator removed

Davos—Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said political forces, civil society and the media want democracy in Pakistan. Prime Minister Gilani is in Davos attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) where he spoke. On elections, the Prime Minister said that the government would decide when they would be held. “All institutions are working within the jurisdiction of the constitution, nothing is happening after the person creating problems was removed”, Gilani said.

New conspiracies being hatched against us: Zardari

Nasir Mahmood

Karachi—President Asif Ali Zardari while addressing a gathering said the politics of the PPP was not dependent on votes. The president added that they could change the destiny of Pakistan if the bureaucracy let them work and cooperated for the length of the government’s term. “There are new conspiracies hatched against us everyday and we will foil all of them”, the president said.

Shahbaz’s statement contempt of court: Malik

Staff Reporter

Islamabad—Interior Min-ister Rehman Malik has termed Shahbaz Sharif’s statements on providing se-curity to Mansoor Ijaz as ‘contempt of court’. Malik said that hewould file a request for a ‘contempt of court’ notice against the chief minister. Shahbaz Sharif, on Thursday, had said that he will take personal responsibility of providing complete security to Ijaz during his visit to Pakistan.

Pak turned into security state: Fazl

Staff Reporter

Karachi—Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Maulana Fazlur Rahman has said that Pakistan has been turned into security state instead of a welfare state. Addressing a massive “Islam Zindabad” conference adjacent to Quaid’s mausoleum here on Friday he said that students of seminaries were being labelled as militants.

Khurram appears in SC, admits ex-official status

Islamabad—The former media coordinator of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, Khurram Rasool admitted to Friday that he had been the media advisor to the Chief Executive and was produced in the Supreme Court by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials on Friday. The three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, in its order said Khurram was not arrested despite court’s orders and the credit of his arrest cannot be given to FIA or to its DG.

Rockets fired at mily academy

Abbottabad—Attackers on Friday fired rockets at Pakistan’s top military academy, damaging its outer wall in a major security breach near the home where Osama bin Laden lived for years, officials said. No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attack and it was unclear who fired the nine rockets from behind a mosque in mountains overlooking the Kakul academy, Pakistan’s equivalent of West Point 30 miles (50 kilometres) from the capital.

Pak regrets G-4 non-flexibility attitude

United Nations—Pakistan expressed deep disappointment over lack of flexibility shown on Thursday by the Group of Four (G-4) countries — India, Brazil, Germany and Japan — seeking permanent seats in the UN Security Council when the deadlocked negotiations to reform the 15-member body resumed.

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