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Summary PM Gilani says MQM ministers resignations have not been accepted; they're still ministers.
Talking to newsmen here at PM Secretariat after presiding over 13th annual awards ceremony of National Highways and Motorway Police, the Prime Minister said Zafar Qureshi had been suspended as per law.On the regional situation, Gilani said Pakistan will not accept any country’s hegemony in the region. “We don’t want any Chaudhry (regional chief) in the region.”The Prime Minister was responding to statement of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in which she urged India to match its economic progress by taking a more assertive political role in Central and East Asia.On a question about the arrest of Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, head of Kashmir Centre in Washington, he clarified that Dr Fai is not a Pakistani citizen, and he was a citizen of Occupied Kashmir.About Fai’s reported link with a sensitive agency, the Prime Minister said the matter is being investigated and “Let the facts come; we will see it then.”Replying to a question about law and order situation of Karachi, he said it is a provincial subject and the federal government is in touch with the provincial government to improve the situation in this mega city.About the financial conditions of Pakistan Railways and shortage of funds, the Prime Minister said sufficient funds in billions of rupees have been provided to Railways to improve its economic conditions.Regarding any change in the portfolio of Ministry of Railways, he said Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, the Railway Minister is from a coalition partner and the government has full regard and respect for its coalition partners.
