Islamabad: Ahead of a trust vote in the Pakistan National Assembly, reports suggest that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani may tender an unconditional apology in the Supreme Court.
PPP sources said that Gilani would appear before the Supreme Court on January 19 and offer unconditional apology.
They further said that in case of any eventuality such as the court asking the prime minister to quit or ordering his arrest, the party had kept three names – PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira, Religious Affairs Minister Khursheed Shah and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi of the PML-Q – under consideration.
This came as Gilani met coalition partners, where he offered to quit, after the SC issued summons.
Gilani told a meeting of top leaders of the Pakistan People's Party and its partners in the ruling coalition that he was ready to quit if the step strengthened the government and parliament, ARY news channel quoted its sources as saying.
Other sources said that the PPP's top leadership had discussed the premier's resignation as a possible measure to ease the government's standoff with the judiciary and the military.
The judiciary has been pressuring the government to reopen cases of alleged money laundering against Zardari since December 2009, when it struck down a graft amnesty issued by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.
The apex court has also accepted the military's request for ordering a probe into the alleged memo that had sought US help to stave off a possible coup in Pakistan after the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
(With Additional Inputs from PTI)
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