Yousuf Raza Gilani

Pak PM constitutes new committee to review Islamabad security

Islamabad, Sept 24 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has constituted a committee to review security in Islamabad after Saturday''s massive suicide attack in which around 60 people were killed.

The committee, which will also review the existing system of disaster management, will present its recommendations within three days.

Czech envoy among the dead in Pak hotel blast

Czech envoy among the dead in Pak hotel blastIslamabad, Sept 21 : Czechoslovakian ambassador in Islamabad Ivo Zdarek was among the 53 people killed in yesterday’s fidayeen attack on a hotel, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani confirmed today.

Gilani said that the envoy’s dead body had been identified.

Meanwhile, even as the death toll reached 53, rescue operation at the Marriott Hotel was going on since early morning. Rescue workers and the fire brigade officials had controlled the fire, but temperature inside the building was still very high due to which entering in the hotel was very difficult.

Gilani: US clearly warned not to attack inside Pakistan

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza GillaniIslamabad - Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Thursday that the US has been notified that it cannot continue to carry out aerial strikes on its territory, a day after a US attack killed six people near the border with Afghanistan.

"The US government has been clearly told that there would be no compromise on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan," he said during a meeting with the ministers of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Islamabad.

Gilani told Mullen US strikes on Pak will only help Taliban in getting tribals’ sympathies

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza GilaniIslamabad, Sept 18 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani yesterday convinced US’ top military man Admiral Mike Mullen that American forces should desist from launching strikes on Pakistan from across Afghan border by saying that the US attacks on the Pakistani areas would only help the Taliban to get the sympathies of the local tribesmen.

Pak PM favours “diplomatic” solution to US unilateral raids issue

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza GilaniIslamabad,
Sept 16: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that he
wants a diplomatic solution for the issue of unilateral American
strikes on Pakistan soil, and that he won’t act in haste.

“We do not jump to conclusions and will solve the issue through talks,”
he said, and added that Pakistan was a responsible country and would
not act hastily in retaliation to the US attacks.

He added his Government was trying to solve the issue of American attacks inside its Tribal Areas diplomatically.

Pakistan can’t wage war with US: Yousuf Raza Gilani

Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza GilaniIslamabad, Sept. 13: Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that his government can and will take up the issue of unilateral American missile strikes with the Bush administration, but ruled out the possibility of engaging the United States in a war.

"We can take up the matter of unilateral strikes in Pakistan at diplomatic level, but cannot wage war," Gilani told newsmen at Prime Minister Secretariat on Friday after inaugurating the country's first plant for manufacturing of auto disposable syringes.

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