Islamabad, Mar. 14 : Pakistan's Information and Broadcasting Minister, Sherry Rehman's resignation has surprised President Asif Ali Zardari.

On receiving the resignation, worried Zardari told Rehman that she had left him in difficult times.

In reply, Sherry Rehman said that she has resigned on principle that of late Benazir Bhutto.

Several sources, confirmed that Rehman had sent her resignation to the Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani who also expressed surprise over the decision.

Lahore, Mar. 14 : The Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) has put in place several plans to avoid arrests of its leaders, and foil any attempt by the government to clamp down on the protest march participants.

According to sources, the party leaders held a meeting at an undisclosed location to discuss its strategy and future course of action, and to thwart the highhandedness of the Zardari administration.

Islamabad, Mar 14: Addressing a high-level meeting at the presidency, President Asif Ali Zardari has described the lawyers’ Long March and sit-in as political moves and made it clear that political matters would be tackled politically, refusing to heed to the advice of Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani.

“The restoration of deposed CJ Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is not possible and he will not be restored in any case,” he said.

Islamabad, Mar. 14 : Pakistan's leading news channel Geo News was blacked out in several cities on the behest of President Asif Ali Zardari.

According to sources, Zardari has sent a message to the channel's administration asking them to stop their coverage of the lawyers' long march.

In his message, Zardari said that if the channel has recovered the losses incurred after the ban imposed on during the Musharraf's regime, then it should refrain from covering the protest march, The News reports.

Islamabad, Mar 14: Pakistan’s Information Minister Sherry Rehman resigned following differences over government’s handling of the electronic media and insistence by President Asif Zardari and his close aides to impose further restrictions on private news channels.

Rehman was against the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA)’s blocking of a private TV channel without taking her into confidence

Lahore, Mar 13 : PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has regretted backing President Asif Zardari, saying that the PPP co-chairman is resorting to adventurism like former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.

In an exclusive interview with Waqt News, Sharif said: "We sincerely backed the PPP and Zardari, but they stabbed us in the back. I was got disqualified from those courts which aren't even accepted by the people."