Pakistan will never compromise on Kashmir: Sherry Rehman

August 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Terming the Kashmir issue as a 'cornerstone' of country's foreign policy, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said his government is 'vigorously' pursuing the issue. Speaking in the Lower House of parliament, Gilani said the government fully supported the cause of the Kashmiri people.

August 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has reiterated its ad-nauseum stance of resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN resolution. Addressing a gathering at Rawalkot, Interior Advisor Rehman Malik said Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has always supported the self-determination right of the Kashmiri's.

June 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Criticizing the 'stringed' US assistance to Pakistan, former Pakistan Information minister, Sherry Rehman, has said that the assistance being offered to Islamabad by Washington was a major factor which comprises the strategic goals of both the countries. Testifying before the US Congress Sub-Committee on National Security hearing for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) crisis, Rehman said there was a need for an absolute commitment on the part of the Unites States and other countries to help Pakistan come out from its worst humanitarian crisis since its formation in 1947.

June 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI) chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, has said that it is difficult to come out with a resolution for the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan in the presence of the US and NATO forces in the region. Speaking at a 'roundtable conference on creating a consensus agenda' here, Rehman, who is also the chairman of the Special Committee of the National Assembly on Kashmir, said the presence of allied forces has created a volatile situation in the region.

April 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Denouncing the whipping of a young girl by the Taliban in Swat, Pakistan's former Information Minister Sherry Rehman has submitted an adjournment motion seeking a debate in the National Assembly. "What is happening in Swat amounts to a blatant abuse of the rights of our people by non-state actors.

March 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People Party (PPP) leader and former information minister Sherry Rehman Wednesday denied reports that she had resigned from the party. She told newsmen that she did want to create any kind of crack in the party.

March 16th, 2009 LAHORE - The drama behind the resignation of Information Minister Sherry Rehman is not going to die down easily, as there are very few takers for the explanation given by Pakistan People's Party stalwarts about the circumstances leading to her exit from the office. PPP MNA Fouzia Wahab on Sunday narrated her own version of the story.

March 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has accepted the resignation of Information and Broadcasting (IB) Minister Sherry Rehman, and has appointed Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas Qamaruz Zaman Kaira to the post. According to sources, Rehman told Gilani that the unwarranted interference in her work by some ministers had affected her prestige.

March 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Information and Broadcasting Minister, Sherry Rehman's resignation has surprised President Asif Ali Zardari. On receiving the resignation, worried Zardari told Rehman that she had left him in difficult times.

March 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman has resigned from her post Saturday, Geo TV reported. The reason for her resignation was not immediately known.

March 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Information Minister Sherry Rehman resigned following differences over government's handling of the electronic media and insistence by President Asif Zardari and his close aides to impose further restrictions on private news channels. Rehman was against the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA)'s blocking of a private TV channel without taking her into confidence Highly placed sources said that Rehman had a series of heated arguments with senior members of the government when some television channels were "penalised" for airing what were perceived as anti-government views during the lawyers' Long March.

March 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman Saturday resigned from her post due to differences over the government's media policy, Geo TV reported, citing officials. The news came at a time when a high level meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari in chair was underway at the Aiwan-e-Sadr here, the report said.

January 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan government has decided to reinstate the 7,700 employees who were recruited during the two prime ministerial terms of the slain Benzair Bhutto but were subsequently sacked. Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman told reporters Wednesday that the cabinet had approved the step and the decision would now be sent to President Asif Ali Zardari for ratification.

January 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Stressing that Pakistan would not 'bow down' to any pressure, President Asif Ali Zardari said that if India wants to build up world pressure on Pakistan, it is a 'mistake', a media report Sunday said. 'If India wants to build world pressure on Pakistan, it is a mistake,' Zardari said during a dinner reception hosted Saturday for Islamabad-based foreign ambassadors at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.

December 31st, 2008 KARACHI - Pakistan's Information Minister Sherry Rehman has said the killers of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto will be exposed soon, the Online news agency reported. Registration of an FIR against the person who fired on Bhutto will expose the killer, but Pakistan wants the UN should expose the people behind the assassination, Rehman said while addressing a seminar here Wednesday.