PML-Q, Like-Minded row intensifies

our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: The internal wrangling within the PML-Q and its another faction Like-Minded group further intensified as on Wednesday President PML-Like Minded Salim Saifullah came out with warning to Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain that he would be shown the exit door if he did not stop giving warnings to senators who refused to toe his line in the upper house of the parliament.

“The disqualification clause did not apply on speaking against the party policy and if Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain will not change his behaviour our eleven senators who might be fourteen would submit application to the Chairman of Senate to oust his parliamentary leader,” he said while addressing the press conference here Wednesday.

Senator Salim Saifullah said that Shujaat Hussain took a personal decision to join the coalition government without taking the Central Executive Committee of the party into confidence. Salim Saifullah declared Shujaat Hussain as a controversial president of PML-Q and the petition is being pending in the Lahore High Court regarding his election as the president of the PML-Q. “No one can change the view of the party through force of threats,” he said.

Justifying the support to Ishaq Dar as an opposition leader in the Senate, Senator Salim Saifullah said the only purpose was to create a viable and strong opposition in the upper house of the parliament.

Saifullah described the support of Islamabad to the visit of John Kerry as an ‘insult’ to the resolution of joint sitting of Parliament in which it was clearly mentioned that if drone attacks were carried out then the supply line of Nato would be cut off. He said when John Kerry was in Islamabad then the drone attack was carried out. He stressed the need to take a hard stance before the United States.