<p>Former Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that things had became unbearable for him to continue living at the presidency after his son was "held" at the gate.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Gilani was reportedly living in a presidential suite of four bedrooms on the sixth floor of the Aiwan-e-Sadr since his ouster in July.<br /><br />Gilani said there was no political prisoner during his rule but his son was made one.<br /><br />"I abandoned Aiwan-e-Sadr when things got beyond the limits of tolerance," Geo TV quoted Gilani as saying at his home in Lahore Saturday.<br /><br />Gilani said that he left the presidency Saturday, the same day his son was held and that he did not contact President Asif Ali Zardari before leaving.<br /><br />The former prime minister regretted that decisions were being made outside parliament. He also expressed his displeasure over removal of some top bureaucrats he had appointed.<br /><br />"I have conveyed to the president that many federal secretaries and heads of organisations I had appointed have been removed by incumbent Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf," Dawn had quoted Gilani as saying Saturday.<br /><br />Gilani remained loyal to the ruling Pakistan People's Party and refused to follow court orders about writing to Swiss authorities for reopening graft cases against Zardari.</p>
<p>Former Pakistani prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that things had became unbearable for him to continue living at the presidency after his son was "held" at the gate.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Gilani was reportedly living in a presidential suite of four bedrooms on the sixth floor of the Aiwan-e-Sadr since his ouster in July.<br /><br />Gilani said there was no political prisoner during his rule but his son was made one.<br /><br />"I abandoned Aiwan-e-Sadr when things got beyond the limits of tolerance," Geo TV quoted Gilani as saying at his home in Lahore Saturday.<br /><br />Gilani said that he left the presidency Saturday, the same day his son was held and that he did not contact President Asif Ali Zardari before leaving.<br /><br />The former prime minister regretted that decisions were being made outside parliament. He also expressed his displeasure over removal of some top bureaucrats he had appointed.<br /><br />"I have conveyed to the president that many federal secretaries and heads of organisations I had appointed have been removed by incumbent Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf," Dawn had quoted Gilani as saying Saturday.<br /><br />Gilani remained loyal to the ruling Pakistan People's Party and refused to follow court orders about writing to Swiss authorities for reopening graft cases against Zardari.</p>