Pakistan Views

Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has ruled out any possibility of impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf, and said it is out of question at present. Talking to reporters at the Muslim League House here on Saturday, Chaudhry Shujaat said that people, who were denying having contacts with the presidential camp, were now acknowledging such contacts.He was of the view that present coalition government would not go for impeaching President Musharraf. He further said that by giving unanimous vote of confidence to the newly elected Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gillani, a good example was set.When asked about restoration of the deposed judges, Shujaat claimed that the government would delay the matter on one pretext or the other, while the time given to the government was going to exhaust. However, he said that his party would accept whatever was decided on the judges’ issue in accordance with the Constitution and law.Answering a question, Shujaat said that the PML-Q could not even think to interfere with the army matters and it would never issue any statement in this regard. He also condemned forcible occupation of his party’s office in Karachi by workers of other faction of the PML.He said that the PML House belonged to the Pakistan Muslim League and was not the property of anyone’s ancestors. To another query, Shujaat was of the view that seeing the situation in Karachi, it was necessary for Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to be the part of the Sindh government.
Answering yet another question, Shujaat said that he would stay in the country to face the cases and would never leave the country. He further said that his party believed in politics of decency and our legislators would practice positive politics and set good democratic traditions in the country.Speaking on the occasion, opposition leader in the National Assembly and former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said that his party would field its candidates for the slots of speaker, deputy speaker and leader of the house in the Punjab Assembly.He said impatience was being shown for induction of new government in the Punjab. He said that efforts were being made to control bureaucracy in Punjab before induction of the provincial government. Earlier, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain chaired a party meeting in which strategy for reorganisation of the PML-Q was evolved. The meeting also discussed current political situation.