Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (L) addresses a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at The Prime Minister's House in Islamabad on May 22, 2012. Erdogan arrived in Pakistan on a three-day official visit to meet with Pakistani leaders.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Reuters
A boy holds a placard as he takes part in a rally organized by political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Islamabad May 6, 2012. About 1,500 supporters gather near the parliament building in an attempt to force the government to implement the Supreme Court's orders in the contempt of court case against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. Pakistan's Supreme Court on April 26, 2012 found Gilani guilty of contempt of court for refusing to reopen corruption cases against the president, but gave him only a symbolic sentence of a few minutes' detention in the courtroom.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (C) is escorted by security as he waves upon his arrival at the Supreme Court building in Islamabad on April 26, 2012. Pakistan's prime minister was convicted of contempt of court by the country's highest court but given only a token sentence in a case that could still see him thrown out of office. The Supreme Court found Yousuf Raza Gilani guilty of contempt over his refusal to obey an order to write to the authorities in Switzerland to ask them to re-open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (R) is escorted by security as he waves upon his arrival at the Supreme Court building in Islamabad on April 26, 2012. Gilani was convicted of contempt of court by the country's highest court but avoided a jail term, state television reported.
This file photo taken on February 13, 2012 shows Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (C) arriving at the Supreme Court in Islamabad. Yousuf Raza Gilani stands before Pakistan's highest court on April 26, 2012 to hear the verdict in a contempt of court case that could see him thrown out of office and jailed.