MULTAN: Prime
Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that Pakistan was ready to
hold talks with everyone for peace and can go to any extent to achieve
this objective.
He, however, made it clear that Pakistan will talk on the basis of equality and mutual respect, keeping in view the country’s national interests.
“We will never allow anyone to think ill about Pakistan’s security. “We do not desire war and want peace in the country and beyond. Pakistan can play an important role in peace and we will do it,” Gilani told a gathering in a town some 30 kilometres from Multan where he laid the foundation stone of the 57-kilometre long Multan-Khanewal section of the Multan-Faisalabad Motorway, to be built at an estimated cost of Rs14 billion. The premier said all the country’s political forces stand shoulder to shoulder for Pakistan’s security interests. The prime minister said the successful holding of All Parties Conference (APC) testified the fact that Pakistani nation is united on the issue of country’s security and defence.
Gilani lauded the political leaders, who responded positively to his call and sat together to discuss the issue of Pakistan’s security, while keeping their political differences aside. Gilani said he could have summoned a joint sitting of parliament on the issue but he opted to call an APC so that the political parties, that had boycotted the previous elections, could be represented in this important national moot.
“The APC was aimed at sending a message to the world that on the issue of Pakistan’s security, the whole nation and political forces were united,” he said, and added that the APC proved that the Pakistani nation was “one like a rock” on the issue of country’s security and defence. The premier criticised those extremist elements, who were bringing bad name to Islam.
About assassination of Prof Burhanuddin Rabbani, Gilani said Afghan President Hamid Karzai has some misunderstanding on the issue. “I want to convey to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is my brother and friend, and with whom we have good relations, he has some misunderstanding on the assassination of Prof Rabbani,” Gilani said. He said Pakistan is ready to provide any security or intelligence assistance to probe the killing. “They cannot doubt us. Pakistanis are a self-respecting nation. Pakistan neither interferes in anyone’s affairs nor allows anyone’s interference in our affairs,” he stressed.
Prime Minister Gilani felicitated the nation as well as the country’s political forces that it was due to the APC meeting that the US had sent a message that they needed Pakistan and that they could not win the war (against terrorism) without it. “They have also distanced themselves from the statement of Mullen. It is the victory of Pakistani nation, political parties as well as the government’s policy of reconciliation,” he remarked.
The prime minister said southern Punjab had remained backward since the creation of Pakistan and expressed his government’s as well as party’s commitment to create a new province in southern Punjab to remove the sense of deprivation of the people.
Meanwhile, Gilani ordered free treatment of Major (R) Aftab Ahmed Khan Daha, a former PPP MNA from Khanewal.
He, however, made it clear that Pakistan will talk on the basis of equality and mutual respect, keeping in view the country’s national interests.
“We will never allow anyone to think ill about Pakistan’s security. “We do not desire war and want peace in the country and beyond. Pakistan can play an important role in peace and we will do it,” Gilani told a gathering in a town some 30 kilometres from Multan where he laid the foundation stone of the 57-kilometre long Multan-Khanewal section of the Multan-Faisalabad Motorway, to be built at an estimated cost of Rs14 billion. The premier said all the country’s political forces stand shoulder to shoulder for Pakistan’s security interests. The prime minister said the successful holding of All Parties Conference (APC) testified the fact that Pakistani nation is united on the issue of country’s security and defence.
Gilani lauded the political leaders, who responded positively to his call and sat together to discuss the issue of Pakistan’s security, while keeping their political differences aside. Gilani said he could have summoned a joint sitting of parliament on the issue but he opted to call an APC so that the political parties, that had boycotted the previous elections, could be represented in this important national moot.
“The APC was aimed at sending a message to the world that on the issue of Pakistan’s security, the whole nation and political forces were united,” he said, and added that the APC proved that the Pakistani nation was “one like a rock” on the issue of country’s security and defence. The premier criticised those extremist elements, who were bringing bad name to Islam.
About assassination of Prof Burhanuddin Rabbani, Gilani said Afghan President Hamid Karzai has some misunderstanding on the issue. “I want to convey to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is my brother and friend, and with whom we have good relations, he has some misunderstanding on the assassination of Prof Rabbani,” Gilani said. He said Pakistan is ready to provide any security or intelligence assistance to probe the killing. “They cannot doubt us. Pakistanis are a self-respecting nation. Pakistan neither interferes in anyone’s affairs nor allows anyone’s interference in our affairs,” he stressed.
Prime Minister Gilani felicitated the nation as well as the country’s political forces that it was due to the APC meeting that the US had sent a message that they needed Pakistan and that they could not win the war (against terrorism) without it. “They have also distanced themselves from the statement of Mullen. It is the victory of Pakistani nation, political parties as well as the government’s policy of reconciliation,” he remarked.
The prime minister said southern Punjab had remained backward since the creation of Pakistan and expressed his government’s as well as party’s commitment to create a new province in southern Punjab to remove the sense of deprivation of the people.
Meanwhile, Gilani ordered free treatment of Major (R) Aftab Ahmed Khan Daha, a former PPP MNA from Khanewal.
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