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Sunday, May 20, 2012
I will remain PM until nation supports me* Gilani says people who want to remove him from office would never succeed
* PPP didn’t come to power through ‘back doors’
Staff Report
LAHORE: Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday said he would remain the PM until the people supported him.
Addressing the 3rd convocation of Virtual University at the Lahore Expo Centre, Gilani said that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was enlightening the country through affordable educational facilities for all segments of society. The PM announced that the government would provide 100,000 jobs to youths. Gilani said the government came into power with the help of the nation and it would stay in power until the nation supported it.
Criticising the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the prime minister said that distributing laptops was not a big feat, as it could not provide the youth with employment. He also vowed to increase the share of GDP for education sector in the next fiscal budget.
He clarified that the government did not come “through a back door” as it was democratically elected. The PPP had come into power through the power of people’s vote, rather than any backdoor channel, he added. The PM said some elements were trying to remove him from his office undemocratically. He added that he could only be sent home through a constitutional way.
Gilani said the PPP-led government was endeavouring to spread information and communication technology services across the country with special focus on backward areas. He said that the government had established more than 1,000 educational and community broadband centres in the country’s remotest areas. He said that the PPP-led government had taken numerous steps to improve the human resource development in the country.
Gilani said that 21st century was a century of knowledge, creativity and innovation and only those nations would call the shots on political and economic landscape that would be leaders in the field of knowledge. He said IT centres would be opened in every union council of the country, including the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
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