Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has expressed the resolve to continue reconciliation policy for Pakistan’s security and sovereignty and to make the parliament and democratic institutions strengthened.
Talking to a journalists’ delegation from electronic media at his residence here Sunday, he said that he had been doing a consistent politics and attainment of power had never been his target. “Because I am in favour of a system which could make the democratic institutions stronger,” he viewed.
The Prime Minister said the PPP would continue to play its role effectively, no matter, whether it is in the government or in the opposition, as democracy means not to rule the people but to serve them. “Politics is not a matter of one day but a day to day affair, and we will continue to adhere to the issue-oriented politics,” he maintained.
To a question, he said that he had accepted the PML-N agenda with all sincerity and called upon the N-League to delink it from provincial government. If PPP loses majority in Punjab, he added, it would prefer to sit on opposition benches instead of resorting to horse trading to gain majority, asserting, “We are totally against change of heart or horse-trading.”
“Punjab issue should not be bracketed with vital national policy which encompass all issues including those mentioned in the N-League agenda”, he said, adding the government was very much focusing on national issues and working to address these for the advancement of Pakistan and welfare of the masses.
To another question, Gilani said that despite PML-N had parted ways with PPP-led federal government right in the beginning, the PPP had been running the government. The PPP government, while realizing a sense of collective responsibility, took on board all its coalition partners on matters pertaining to country’s defence, security, foreign and nuclear policy and all other issues of national importance.
The PPP-led coalition government, he added, had taken revolutionary steps, which a party having two-thirds majority could not perhaps take such decisions. He cited that his government, through 18th amendment ensured the balance of power between the president and parliament, lifted ban on third-time premiership, got the country rid of dictatorship through dialogue; resolved the long-pending issue of the NFC and did not make a single amendment or law, which is aimed to benefit an individual only.
Talking to a journalists’ delegation from electronic media at his residence here Sunday, he said that he had been doing a consistent politics and attainment of power had never been his target. “Because I am in favour of a system which could make the democratic institutions stronger,” he viewed.
The Prime Minister said the PPP would continue to play its role effectively, no matter, whether it is in the government or in the opposition, as democracy means not to rule the people but to serve them. “Politics is not a matter of one day but a day to day affair, and we will continue to adhere to the issue-oriented politics,” he maintained.
To a question, he said that he had accepted the PML-N agenda with all sincerity and called upon the N-League to delink it from provincial government. If PPP loses majority in Punjab, he added, it would prefer to sit on opposition benches instead of resorting to horse trading to gain majority, asserting, “We are totally against change of heart or horse-trading.”
“Punjab issue should not be bracketed with vital national policy which encompass all issues including those mentioned in the N-League agenda”, he said, adding the government was very much focusing on national issues and working to address these for the advancement of Pakistan and welfare of the masses.
To another question, Gilani said that despite PML-N had parted ways with PPP-led federal government right in the beginning, the PPP had been running the government. The PPP government, while realizing a sense of collective responsibility, took on board all its coalition partners on matters pertaining to country’s defence, security, foreign and nuclear policy and all other issues of national importance.
The PPP-led coalition government, he added, had taken revolutionary steps, which a party having two-thirds majority could not perhaps take such decisions. He cited that his government, through 18th amendment ensured the balance of power between the president and parliament, lifted ban on third-time premiership, got the country rid of dictatorship through dialogue; resolved the long-pending issue of the NFC and did not make a single amendment or law, which is aimed to benefit an individual only.
