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ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday night told PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain that he was greatly indebted to him, because he as the interior minister in Nawaz Sharif's second government had supported him by saying that the narcotics case framed against Zardari had been fabricated and baseless. A source privy to the meeting between Zardari and Shujaat told Pakistan Today that when Shujaat thanked the president for not creating a rift in the PML-Q, Zardari

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 - Rejecting the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)'s proposal of taking the army and judiciary on board to resolve national issues, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Thursday that it was the duty of people's representatives and not of the judiciary and the army to devise national agenda. "It is the responsibility of the politicians who are people's representatives to find ways to steer the country out of persistent crises and

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Thursday said that an All Parties Committee should be constituted to formulate a unanimous national agenda for bringing economic stability in the country.
He floated the proposal in his meeting with a delegation of Pakistan Business Forum which called on him at his residence. Shujaat said that people from all strata of life should play their role to bring economic stability in the country. He

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Thursday said his party would keep playing its role in the progress and prosperity of the people at large and would emerge as the single largest party of the country in the next elections.
"The PML -Q is playing its due role as the only opposition party in the centre and the provinces. We don't need to go to anyone as because of our growing popularity amongst the masses, the politicians would have

KARACHI - There is nothing wrong with calling out the army in Karachi if it helps restore peace in the city, PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Sunday.
"There is no outside force involved in targeted killings in Karachi and it is the 'home' forces that are responsible for whatever is happening in the city," he told journalists at a luncheon.
His statement came a day after PML-F chief Pir Pagara said that as the government has failed to maintain law and order in

KARACHI - PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat and Mushahid Hussain continued their meetings with different parties on Saturday for restoring
peace in Karachi. They called on leaders of the ANP, the Sunni Tehreek (ST) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) separately and discussed matters pertaining to the law and order situation in the city.
According to Mushahid Hussain, they would also meet the provincial government representatives in this regard. They are on a three-day visit

KARACHI - PML-Q leader Chaudhry Shujaat on Friday said he would tell the nation who is behind the targeted killings in Karachi after three days.
He said this while speaking at a 'Meet the Press' programme in the Karachi Press Club on the first day of his three-day visit to the metropolis.
Shujaat has arrived in Karachi along with PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain and would hold meetings in the next three days with different political parties, especially the MQM and

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has offered former Sindh chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim party's top slot in Sindh, Pakistan Today has learnt reliably. "In his recent visit to the United Arab Emirates, Shujaat had an exclusive meeting with Rahim and asked him to come back to the country by ending his self-imposed exile and lead the PML-Q's Sindh chapter in place of Ghous Bux Mehar," a source in the PML-Q said.
The source said Shujaat also asked the former

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Wednesday demanded the government introduce new legislation to stop the abuse of blasphemy laws. Condemning the assassination of Salmaan Taseer, Shujaat said the government should draft new laws by taking all political and religious parties on board to stop the abuse of the existing blasphemy law.
Addressing the PML-Q Central Working Committee meeting, Shujaat said, "The government should not touch or

LAHORE - Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has predicted that next year will bring the election season citing the active connections between political parties as reason while talking to reporters in Lahore on Sunday.

ISLAMABAD: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain is unhappy with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's contact with the party's likeminded group president Salim Saifullah, conveying his reservations to the PPP central command, Pakistan Today has learnt.
A source in the PML-Q said Shujaat was disturbed over the PPP's contacts with the likeminded group. "On one hand, a PPP minister asks us to join the ruling coalition and on the other, the prime minister engages the likeminded

ISLAMABAD - Jamiat Ulem-e-Islam-F chief Fazlur Rehman has called on Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and also former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed separately, after quitting the PPP-led coalition government at centre, private news channels reported on Wednesday.
Fazl met both the leaders on the sideline of a conference entitled Tahafuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat. During his meeting with Qazi Hussain, the JUI-F chief discussed reactivation of the

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) President Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussian has announced that PML-Q will raise the issue of the missing Ali Ayaz Fakhri, son of the prominent artist Jameel Fakhri, in the senate while talking to reporters at Jameel Fakhri's residence.
He urged the government to take immediate measures for the recovery of Ali Ayaz, who has been missing in the United States for 20 months, and suggested that Pakistani Ambassador in the US Hussian Haqani needed

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) will vote against the Reformed General Sales Tax (GST) bill in the National Assembly, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Saturday.
Addressing a press conference, Shujaat said, "As it is a money bill, any parliamentarian from our party to vote against party policy will be disqualified." He said his party was misled by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) as it backed out at the last minute and did not join the PML-Q

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Muttahida Muslim League's (MML) Steering Committee Chairman Mir Zafarullah Jamali on Tuesday failed to convince Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain to join the four-party alliance.
Jamali called on Shujaat at his residence to thrash out differences on the issue of PML unification. "He tried to convince Shujaat that the alliance was in the greater interest of all Muslim Leagues," a source in the PML-Q told Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League organised a ceremony to pay homage to Allama Muhammad Iqbal on his 133 birth anniversary. Addressing the function at the PML House, PML President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said, "We have to forget all differences for the sovereignty, solidarity of the country and to materialise the dreams of Iqbal.
He said that taking the country out of chaos was not possible for one party and all political forces should join their brains to evolve a strategy that