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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League -Quaid (PML-Q) finalized its four names for the federal cabinet on Wednesday.
Quoting sources, a private television channel reported that the names include Pervez Elahi from Punjab, Ghous Bakhsh Mahar from Sindh, Ameer Muqam from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Jam Yousuf from Balochistan.
All of them are presidents of the party on provincial levels.
It reported that the names of the provincial party presidents were selected to remove

ISLAMABAD - As the top command of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) fine-tune their power-sharing deal, parliamentarians from the former ruling party have entered an intra-party race to get ministerial slots in a government they have been dubbing the most 'corrupt and incompetent' in the country's history.
A source in the PML-Q told Pakistan Today that under the power-sharing agreement between the Chaudhrys and President Asif Ali

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court restricted the Home Department and police on Tuesday from registering a case against PML-Q leader Malak Changaiz and his five relatives or arresting them without taking permission from the apex court till May 11 and directed the Hyderabad RPO to appear before the court on the next date of the case's hearing. A single bench comprising Justice Aqeel Ammed Abbasi extended the previous court order that is set to expire on April 20.
It was issued by the

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Likeminded has issued a third white paper against the government, saying both ruling parties at the Centre and provincial level should announce fresh general elections after accepting their failure. PML-Q Likeminded Punjab Information Secretary Mian Asif told a news conference that the volume of foreign loans had increased to $64 billion, electricity shortfall had risen to 5,000MW, 150 drone attacks had taken place and 621 terrorist

ISLAMABAD - More than 200 activists of PML-Q on Monday staged a protest demonstration outside the Parliament House against Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for creating hurdles in the construction of Saroba and Mujahid bridges in Rawalpindi. The protests were staged over what the PML-Q called political victimisation on part of PML-N leader, as he had stopped construction work on Soraba Bridge and Mujhaid Bridge.
The protesting activist from NA-53 and PP-7

ISLAMABAD - The power-sharing talks between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) have entered the final phase and the latter may join the coalition government by taking portfolios in the federal cabinet in the second phase of cabinet formation in a few weeks, a government source told Pakistan Today on Friday.
The source said that the PPP had offered 6 to 8 ministries to the PML-Q for the second phase of cabinet formation, which was likely

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) Information Secretary Kamil Ali Agha accused Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) Additional Director General (ADG) Zafar Qureshi of unleashing a personal agenda of vengeance against Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and his family, in a press statement issued in Lahore on Tuesday, and said that Zafar Ahmad Qureshi had failed to find any proof against Monis Elahi in the 14 day physical remand.
Agha said that Qureshi despite his machination has also

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Information Secretary Kamil Ali Agha and party's parliamentary leader in the Punjab Assembly on Monday condemned the FIA's Additional Director General Zafar Ahmad Qureshi's accusation against Moonis Elahi. In a statement issued on Monday they said that despite all out efforts, the FIA had failed to produce any proof of Moonis Elahi's corruption and all the accusations were part of 'baseless' media trial.

ISLAMABAD - Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (r) Hamid Ali Mirza on Friday adjourned the hearing of a reference against nine members of the PML-Q Unification Bloc until April 23.
Representing the nine members of Unification Bloc members who parted the ways with PML-Q, Barrister Akram Sheikh contended before the CEC that he had no authority to conduct hearing on the case after the 18th Amendment.
"Per law, CEC cannot hear this reference until the completion of the

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) on Thursday accepted the invitation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to attend its rally in Lahore on April 10. The recent contacts between the PML-Q and MQM are seen as an attempt to counter the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Punjab and Lahore, as the ruling Punjab party is a common enemy for the PML-Q and the MQM at the moment.
Political analysts also forecast a potential political alliance between the two parties.

LAHORE - Pakistan People's party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders hailing from Wazirabad joined Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) in a meeting with PML-Q leader Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi on Tuesday.
Waqas Afzal Chattah, former ticket holder of PPP from PP-103, PML-N leader Ali Asghar Cheema, union council leaders Shahbaz Cheema, Chaudhary Muhammad Ashraf, Akhtar Hunjra, Chaudhary Saif, Syed Zaigham and others, while reposing full confidence in the

LAHORE - The Punjab Assembly (PA) on Wednesday turned into a battlefield as Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) female members of the provincial assembly (MPA) and Unification Bloc members abused each other showing their immaturity.
As soon as the house proceedings started, the question hour related to the home department began on which Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah started answering questions. After the question hour, house proceedings were in progress when Unification

ISLAMABAD - A brainchild of former president Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) is hurtling towards its natural demise as it is embroiled in serious internal crises with no leader or parliamentarian committed to the Chaudhrys.
In the last three years since the PML-Q's slow disintegration began shortly after its defeat in the 2008 elections, over a dozen blocs and interest groups with no cohesion among them - save for lack of an agenda or charismatic