Islamabad, Sept 5 : Senior PPP leader Syeda Abida Hussain has said that the Wednesday’s assassination bid on Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani could be the handiwork of “pro-Musharraf elements” who, according to her, were not happy over the ouster of former president.
She said that it was during the period of Pervez Musharraf that commitments with regard to the war on terror were made.
“It was during this period that an amount of 45 billion dollars came into the country and some people got fiscal gains beyond their imagination. Such people would never like their chief patron out of power,” The News quoted her as saying in a TV interview.
Following reports that the PPP-led federal government was targeting the PML-N and the Punjab Government run by PML-N chief Shahbaz Sharif, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said in the National Assembly last evening that his government was not pursuing any case against the Sharif brothers.
Pakistan is the biggest target of global terrorists and it should set up a special fund for terrorism victims in the country, said PPP Co-Chairman and presidential hopeful.
Islamabad, Sept 5 : One of the first cousins of former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf received a sum of 88,579 British Pounds (Rs 12.4 million approx) after he was appointed adviser to the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) in London, the National Assembly was told last evening.
Islamabad- Pakistani troops killed at least 36 Taliban militants in two separate security actions in restive north-west Pakistan, security officials said on Thursday.
Islamabad, Sept. 4 : The Pakistani Taliban has said they would not kill the two Chinese engineers and two Pakistanis they have been holding since last week, but they would not release them unless their unspecified demands were met.
