Islamabad: The Pakistan Army's top commanders have decided to throw their weight behind the Supreme Court in its standoff with the civilian government over the memo scandal and the revival of high-profile graft cases, according to a media report on Friday. The decision was made at a meeting of top commanders chaired by army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi yesterday, The Express Tribune quoted...
12:40 PM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has called an emergency meeting of top commanders on Thursday in the wake of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday sacking the defence secretary for 'gross misconduct'. Hours after he fired the Defence Secretary over an affidavit row with the Army, Gilani on Wednesday said the top defence official had violated the rules of business and had to go. The...
06:05 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Islamabad: Against the backdrop of tension with the army after his sacking of the defence secretary, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that his government had no dispute with the armed forces and democracy would continue to function in the country. Gilani, who dismissed Defence Secretary Naeem Khalid Lodhi earlier in the day for submitting statements of army and spy agency chiefs to the apex court panel...
12:27 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Islamabad: Hours after he fired the Defence Secretary over an affidavit row with the Army, Pakistan's beleaguered Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said the top defence official had violated rules of business and had to go. Earlier in the day, Gilani dismissed Defence Secretary Lt Gen (retd) Khalid Naeem Lodhi, a move that came minutes after the military issued a terse statement responding to Gilani's comments that the...
10:37 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday sacked Defence Secretary Lt Gen (retired) Khalid Naeem Lodhi, considered close to the army chief, marking an escalation in the row between the civilian government and the military over the Memogate scandal. The government terminated the contract of Lodhi with immediate effect for "gross misconduct and illegal action" said a statement issued by the Prime Minister's office. Action was taken...
05:45 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said all state institutions, including the judiciary and army, should work within their constitutional limits as tensions continued between the civilian government and the powerful military over the Memogate scandal. "Parliament, judiciary and the army - we respect all three and we want these three institutions to work while remaining within their constitutional limits," Gilani said in televised concluding remarks at...
04:05 PM, Dec 25, 2011
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