Pakistan’s Gilani Guilty of Contempt, Spared Jail Term
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Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will file a review appeal against today’s contempt of court conviction and parliament’s speaker will decide whether he stays in office while that challenge is heard, his lawyer said.
“I don’t think the prime minister should resign after this verdict,” the lawyer, Aitzaz Ahsan, said in a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. “There’s no automatic or immediate disqualification. It’s now up to the speaker of the National Assembly to decide.”