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LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leadership decided on Sunday to boycott the upcoming joint parliamentary session to be addressed by President Asif Zardari on March 22, indicating new strains in its relations with the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP).
Sources told Pakistan Today that the PML-Q legislators were likely to stage a walkout from the joint session to protest against the government's handling of drone attacks and the Raymond Davis incident. A

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Likeminded, the breakaway faction of the PML-Quaid (PML-Q), has opposed the PML-Q's decision to boycott the presidential address to the joint session of parliament.
PML Likeminded President Senator Salim Saifullah called the PML-Q's decision "inappropriate". "If the opposition parties are really sincere in steering the country out of crises, they should develop mutual understanding and it will be their unity that can force the government

LAHORE - The steady improvement of relations between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) suffered a setback on Friday as the two opposition parties in the Punjab Assembly bickered on Friday over PML-Q Provincial Assembly Member (MPA) Moonis Elahi's arrest by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The rift between the two rivals of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) provincial government badly disturbed assembly business as proceedings gave

LAHORE - To register their protest and anger, the PML-Q's MPAs Wednesday staged a protest demonstration in front of the Punjab Assembly building against the party turncoats. PML-Q parliamentary leader in the Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Zaheer along with the party MPAs including Dr Samia Amjad, Majida Zaidi, Amna Ulfat, Seemal Kamran, Bushra Nawaz Gardezi and Khadija Farooqi led the protest, which was also joined by the party workers.
The protesters chanted anti-Punjab government

ISLAMABAD - Rejecting the impression that the Pakistan Muslim League-Q was coming forward to become part of the PPP-led coalition government, Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Tuesday said that there was complete consensus within the party over not joining the government.
"The PML-Q has no intention to join any government.... We will form our own government after winning the next election," he told reporters at the PML House. He said dialogue did not mean a deal, as "we believe in

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid is ready to take its fight with the Unification members to the hometowns of each and every rebel who is supporting the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
It is learnt that the PML-Q is planning to hold public meetings in the constituencies of each and every member of Unification group in coming days. Sources disclosed that in these meetings, the party leaders would announce their future candidates for the next parliamentary elections from the

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Friday assured President Asif Ali Zardari of not letting the PPP coalition government fall and joining the coalition in case the MQM pulled out of the ruling alliance.
Shujaat had led a delegation of PML-Q leaders to meet Zardari at the Presidency late on Friday. However, the PPP-PML-Q power sharing talks remained inconclusive with Zardari insisting the PML-Q enter into a formal alliance at the Centre

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) will soon introduce the 20th Constitutional Amendment in parliament to propose uniform syllabus in educational institutions across the country and keep the subject with Centre.
Addressing the concluding session of three-day International Seerat Conference here, PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain feared that different syllabus in each province might lead to a dangerous situation as one provincial government might opt to replace

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had called a provincial parliamentary party meeting on Friday to show off the party's strength in the assembly, party sources told Pakistan Today on Wednesday. The sources said that the meeting was not only aimed at sending a message to opponents about the fate of the dissident Unification Bloc, but also to devise a strategy for the upcoming provincial assembly session. The sources said that the

LAHORE - The Punjab government has lost its right to govern because it has failed to provide roll number slips to thousands of students, PML-Q Punjab Information Secretary Akram Chaudhry said this on Saturday. Speaking to party workers at the Muslim League House, Akram said that the health and education departments have yet to get ministers, which showed that the Punjab chief minister had turned a blind eye to issues concerning these sectors.
"The Punjab government has launched

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leaders filed a joint application in the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday seeking registration of a criminal case against Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Additional Director General Zafar Ahmed Qureshi under Section 193 and Section 500 of the Pakistan Penal Code for making false allegations against them. PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain and Moonis Elahi filed the petition through their

ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam in the National Assembly Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat Friday rejected Shah Mahmood Qureshi's claim that he had been offered a ministerial slot by the then PML-Q government. He said neither Rao Sikandar Iqbal nor Shaukat Aziz had made any offer to the former foreign minister. He was speaking in the National Assembly on a point of order. "I came to know Qureshi's contention through media reports.
In order to set

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Q parliamentary leader in Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Zaheeruddin has said that his opposition party will not move a no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, as they did not have the required number of legislators to do so.
Addressing a news conference at the Muslim League House on Friday, Zaheer said that the PML-Q was not in a position to present any such move in the House, however, he pledged to continue exposing the "other" face

LAHORE - With the Pakistan Muslim League-Q's Unification Bloc facing a troubled situation and members getting out of control, bloc leader Dr Tahir Javed called an emergency meeting of the party on Friday in the committee room of the Punjab Assembly.
In a shrewd tactical decision, Javed invited not only the original bloc members but the rest of the PML-Q parliamentarians to attend the crucial meeting as well, which was followed by a grand feast. "We have been served notices of

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid group's central leaders on Thursday filed three separate applications in the Supreme Court seeking action against Additional DG FIA Zafar Ahmed Qureshi under criminal law. The applications were filed by Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Ch Pervaiz Elahi, Ch Wajahat Hussain and Ch Moonis Elahi through counsels Senator Wasim Sajjad, Senator SM Zafar and Dr Khalid Ranjha, said a press release issued from Ch Shujaat's residence.
The applicants have

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) on Thursday filed a disqualification reference with the Punjab Assembly speaker against nine members of the Unification Bloc for joining hands with the PML-N led government in the province. Former opposition leader and the parliamentary leader of PML-Q, Chaudhry Zaheeruddin submitted the reference, telling reporters that they had opted for a legal and constitutional course of action against the turncoats, while the Sharif brothers were

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid central command on Tuesday decided to gear up efforts to develop a grand anti-PML-N alliance with likeminded parties in order to defame and isolate the Sharifs. This was decided in a PML-Q consultation meeting under party leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.
A source said the Chaudhrys told their comrades that the party had developed cordial relations with Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)