WASHINGTON, July 30: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that nobody in Pakistan could invoke Article 58(2) b against his government.

“There are some people who keep predicting that this government is going to fall, that the assemblies will be dissolved,” noted the prime minister. He called such people “professional doomsayers” and said that their predictions would never come true.

“There is nobody in Pakistan who can invoke Article 58(2) b against this government,” he said. “Nobody can dissolve these assemblies.”

The prime minister said that his government would not only complete its tenure but would also fulfil the promises it had made to the people of Pakistan.

He said that the government would resolve the energy crisis in less than a year and would also overcome the food crisis in the same period.

Mr Gilani said that on Tuesday he had chaired a conference of investors at the World Bank in Washington all of whom showed “great interest” in investing in the power sector in Pakistan.

The prime minister also announced a donation of Rs100 million for setting up a Jinnah Centre in Washington, to be housed in the former embassy building on the city’s main Massachusetts Avenue. He urged Pakistani-Americans to donate generously to help establish the centre.