Resignations of PML-N ministers will be accepted soon: Gilani

Karachi, Aug 29 (PTI) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Friday said the resignations of P.M.L.-N. ministers, who had quit his cabinet, would be accepted "soon" and ruled out setting a deadline for restoring judges dismissed during last year's emergency rule.

Gilani said senior P.M.L.-N. leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had recently met him and asked him to accept the resignations of his party ministers.

"I'll soon accept (the) resignations," he told reporters
at the airport here.

Former premier Nawaz Sharif's P.M.L.-N. pulled out of the
ruling coalition on Monday, accusing Pakistan People's Party
chief Asif Ali Zardari of reneging on agreements to reinstate
the judges who were sacked by former President Pervez
Musharraf.

On his government's stand on reinstating the judges,
Gilani said it is committed to restoring them to their former
positions, but refused to set a deadline for the same.

"Even before taking oath, I released all the judges (from
house arrest)... Now we are committed to restore the judges. I
have not given any deadline and I think it is not appropriate
to give deadlines because it is up to the parliament to take a
decision," he said.

The Prime Minister also said he was not privy to the
discussions held between the Pakistan People's Party and
P.M.L.-N. over the past few months on the issue of reinstating
the judges.

"Politicians have been discussing this issue for four
months (but) I did not participate for even a single day," he
said. PTI RHL