Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani trails both his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh and al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on the list of the world's most powerful persons complied by Forbes magazine.

Gilani was ranked 38th in the 67-person list, one slot behind bin Laden and two notches below Singh.  "Less powerful than bin Laden -- can't find him in his own country. Oversees Pakistan's fledgling civilian government, ceded responsibility for tracking down terrorists to military. Busy fending off Obama, Taliban, al-Qaeda, deposed militant groups," read the note describing the 57-year-old Gilani on Forbes' website.  The magazine noted that Gilani "still has (the) keys to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal".

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The top five powerful persons on the list, apart from Obama, are Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian premier Vladimir Putin, US Federal Reserve chairman Ben S Bernanke and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

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