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No chance of coup as Army, PPP working in tandem 'for first time': Gilani | Rejecting apprehensions regarding a possible military
coup in the country, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government and the Army, probably for the first
time, are working in tandem with each other. In an interview to a private television
channel, Gilani said the army is working within the constitutional ambit and has
to tow the official policies. "The army stands by the government, and there is
no doubt about it," Gilani said. "It is for the first time that the Pakistan Peoples
Party has better ties with the army," he said while replying to a question regarding
objections raised by the armed forces over the Kerry Lugar bill and its decision
not to send the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lieutenant General Shuja
Pasha to India . Gilani said the government is in contact with the Chief of Army
Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani, who maintains that the military would not
indulge in the country's politics. When asked about former President General Pervez
Musharraf's trial under high treason charges, Gilani said he has no issues regarding
Musharraf's trial under the Article 6 of the Constitution, but added that a consensus
of the House is needed to pursue the case. Meanwhile, Defence Minister Ahmed
Mukhtar
has said that the army would not interfere in government's affairs. Mukhtar also
rebuffed demands of his resignation following the NRO verdict, saying he had not
done anything against the law of the country. |
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