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ISLAMABAD - PML-Q MNA Sheikh Waqas Akram Tuesday held the Punjab government responsible for supporting terrorist outfits and patronizing elements from the banned organisations. Speaking on a point of order, the MNA form Jhang claimed the rulers of the Punjab were working in collaboration with terrorist elements.
He urged the government to prevent a banned organisation from holding a public gathering in Jhang on February 25. He said no banned outfit should be given a free hand to

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Monday forming a government with the Chaudhrys (Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi) was like a curse so the coalition with the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) was out of question.
Addressing PML-N party workers from Gujranwala and Rawalpindi divisions at his Model Town residence, Nawaz said, "We will continue per our routine in Punjab while proving its strength in the House." He said

LAHORE - Punjab Assembly opposition leader Chaudhary Zaheer-ud-Din said his party will challenge the decision regarding the granting of separate status to the members of the forward bloc in the court.
Addressing a press conference at the Punjab Assembly's cafeteria on Thursday, he said consultation among his party members was in progress and soon his party will challenge Punjab Assembly speaker's decision, terming it as 'crossing the limits'. Condemning PML-N leadership, he said

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Q offered its logistic support to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in Punjab after getting the latter's assurance that it will not woo PML-Q workers for joining MQM in the province.
"The MQM leaders assured the Chaudhrys during Sunday meeting that the Muttahida will work in unison with the PML-Q but will not encourage any PML-Q leader/worker or parliamentarian (former or sitting) to join the Muttahida," said a PML-Q leader asking not to be

LAHORE - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Muslim League-Q have joined hands to develop a "strategic partnership leading to a new political alliance" in the greater national interest. The agreement came in a meeting after a joint address to party workers at the Muslim League House, where a 15-member MQM delegation met the PML-Q leadership on Sunday.
The delegation led by Dr Farooq Sattar was accorded a warm welcome by the PML-Q leadership. MQM leaders who were part

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) parliamentarians on Thursday demanded that the government remove Zafar Ahmed Qureshi, head of the FIA team investigating the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam.
A day after the FIA sought arrest warrants for PML-Q's Moonis Elahi, two female parliamentarians, Shahnaz Sheikh and Attiya Inayatullah, came to the Chaudhrys' rescue during Thursday's session. Speaking on a point of order, Shahnaz Sheikh said, "Zafar

LAHORE - Former Punjab chief minister Pervez Elahi said that Sharifs were conspiring against PML-Q leadership and soon he would divulge 'truth' behind the case against Monis Elahi. He was addressing a press conference here Thursday.
He said that Monis would be in Pakistan by the next week and surely appear before the court. The PML-Q leader said that the case was part of political vendetta.

ISLAMABAD - After facing defeat in National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs on its proposed bill, the Pakistan Muslim League-Q has decided to get the Pakistan Sovereignty Bill 2010 passed by the Senate Standing Committee, as well as do lobbying in the lower house of the parliament for its passage.
The PML-likeminded is also supporting the legislation and its President Senator Salim Saifullah, who is also the chairman of senate body on foreign affairs, has declared

KARACHI - The PML-Q informed PML-F chief Pir Pagara on Saturday that the party is ready to mend ties with the Likeminded faction for the United Muslim League project.
The development came during a meeting of PML-Q leader Chaudhry Shujaat with Pagara held at the latter's residence, Kingri House. Mushahid Hussain, Ghous Bux Maher, Haleem Aadil Shaikh and other PML-Q leaders also accompanied Shujaat on the occasion.
Previously, the unification of different Muslim League

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid has offered the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) its services in Punjab to inflict political damage to the PML-N.
A source in the PML-Q told Pakistan Today that in Friday's meeting between the leadership of the PML-Q and the MQM at nine zero, Shujaat Hussain asked MQM leaders to gear up their political activities in Punjab and assured them the PML-Q's full logistic support against the PML-N.
Addressing a joint press conference after

KARACHI - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) will cooperate completely with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in Punjab, in the hopes that the MQM will cooperate with the PML-Q in Sindh, PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Friday during a visit to MQM headquarters, Nine-Zero.
Over a conversation via telephone, MQM chief Altaf Hussain concurred and said that the two parties have and will work together for the sake of the country.
"As long as patriotism is

ISLAMABAD - Warning the PPP-led government of a "Tunisia-like" rebellion, the PML-Q has presented a five-point agenda to take the country out of the present crises.
Briefing reporters after meeting the government's economic team on Wednesday, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Secretary General Mushahid Hussain said they had asked the government to control price hike, devise an energy plan, curb targeted killings in Karachi and Balochistan, eliminate corruption, and

ISLAMABAD - Calling the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) a "cowardly party" for not standing by their leaders in difficult times, PML-Q central leaders on Wednesday put the ruling party to shame for not defending slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer against extremists.
A source told Pakistan Today that a five-member government committee called on PML-Q leaders at Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's residence to inform them of the economic situation in the country, but faced severe criticism

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) and the Awami National Party (ANP) submitted adjournment motions in the National Assembly and the Senate on Saturday to discuss the ongoing violence and assassinations
in Karachi.
PML-Q Deputy Parliamentary leader Amir Muqaam and the Awami National Party (ANP) senators Afrasyab Khattak and Zahid Khan submitted the adjournment motions in the National Assembly and the Senate respectively on behalf of their

LAHORE - Former Punjab chief minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid's (PML-Q) senior leader Parvez Elahi has said that his party will not let the present system derail and continue to strive for the national solidarity, good governance, strong democratic values and elimination of poverty.
He said this in a meeting held at his residence in Islamabad with the party leaders from Rawalpindi, Jehlum and Attock on thursday.
He added that the party had always upheld national

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) is divided on the issue of joining the PPP-led coalition government as party parliamentarians and other leaders have differing political interests.
The Central Working Committee (CWC) of the PML-Q met on Wednesday to formulate a party policy in the backdrop of MQM's breakaway with the government and agreed not to move a vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. "As we lack the required strength to move a

ISLAMABAD - The MQM's withdrawal from the coalition has put the PML-N in a catch 22 situation, while PML-Q's role has become critical in the emerging political scenario. Although power-sharing parleys between the PPP and the PML-Q are on for the last many months, the two parties have so far failed to finalise the modalities of a formal deal.
A source in the PML-Q said the Chaudhrys were double minded over whether to join the PPP-led coalition government. He said party leaders and