The Australian
S top court has disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from office in a stunning move. The shock decision yesterday was likened to a "judicial coup", and has plunged the country into fresh turmoil. The Supreme Court convicted Mr Gilani of...
The independent
Pakistan has been plunged into fresh turmoil and uncertainty after the country's Supreme Court disqualified prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani from office, with some analysts likening the move to a judicial coup. In the latest confrontation between...
The Independent
In the past, Pakistan's democratic hopes were often thwarted by generals taking power for themselves, or shunting governments aside by subtler means. Now it is the turn of another unelected and unaccountable institution to try the same...There is an...
DAWN
In the aftermath of Yousuf Raza Gilani's disqualification from the premier office by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, President Asif Ali Zardari disregarded the option of early general elections and said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will...
The Age
Ben Doherty, Islamabad, Pakistan June 20, 2012 Read later Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. S shaky democracy is in new turmoil after the dismissal of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. The Supreme Court, which has openly warred with the elected...
Daily News & Analysis
Engaged in a continued tug-of-war for supremacy with the military on one side, and an assertive judiciary on the other, Yousaf Raza Gilani's four years at Pakistan's helm was indeed a tumultuous period for him and the country which also saw frosty...