MULTAN: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday said the government would give relief to the people in the next budget.
"It is the only political government in the history of Pakistan which will present the 5th budget in May in which relief will be given to the people," he told media after inaugurating Multan Campus of the Air University.
He said the government has fulfilled yet another promise by holding the Senate elections in time proving incorrect the negative predictions regarding Senate polls.
To a question, he said there would be no caretaker or 'chair-taker' government while no Prime Minister would be removed illegally and unconstitutionally in the country.
About US pressure on Pak-Iran gas pipeline project, the Prime Minister said Pakistan is a sovereign country having bilateral relations with various countries including Iran, and added "We will do whatever is in our national interest."
He said there is ups and downs in relations with the United States, sometime it is good while sometime it becomes bad.
To a question, the Prime Minister said the government believed in freedom of the press and has no plan to impose restrictions on media.
"All the institutions are passing through an evaluation process", he said, adding, "We want to strengthen the Parliament, Judiciary and Media but all the institutions should work within their domains."
He said tolerance is a key to success and the present government is showing utmost tolerance since there is no political victimization and no political prisoner in the country.
About petroleum prices, the Prime Minister said, these prices are linked with the international markets and when there is an upward trend in its prices, it affects the entire world.
He, however, said the elected government did not want to put unnecessary burden on its people.
The Prime Minister said that Saraeki province was demand of the entire belt but conspiracies are being hatched to divert the attention of people from this issue by raising slogans of Bahawalpur or Hazara provinces.
He said that Bahawalpur is part of the Saraeki province, adding that Saraeki province would be established after consultation with the Coalition Partners to safeguard the rights of the people of the area.
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