Pakistan Views

Pakistan Muslim League Central Executive Committee (CEC) has nominated Pervaiz Elahi and Hamid Nasir Chattha as party parliamentary leaders in Centre and Punjab respectively. The party CEC held its meeting here on Saturday with Shujaat Hussain in the chair and discussed party’s performance and future strategy.
Later, addressing a press conference, Shujaat said that his party had decided to nominate Pervaiz Elahi as parliamentary leader in National Assembly and Hamid Nasir Chattha would be parliamentary leader in Punjab Assembly. In reply to a question, he said that being the largest party among the opposition, leader of opposition is the right of PML-Q both in Centre and Punjab. He said that besides forming a coalition government in Balochistan, PML-Q would sit on the opposition benches in Centre and other three provinces where it would play the role of constructive and vibrant opposition. When asked about the restoration of sacked judges, he said that his party would not play with the sentiments of the people by making such claims. Shujaat said that the party is strong enough to go ahead with full political activities, and would not be affected by some defections. When his attention was drawn towards the on-going dialogue between PPP and MQM to form a coalition government in Sindh, he said that PML-Q would not have any objection. On the occasion, Secretary General Pakistan Muslim League Senator Mushahid Hussain said that the party would form a Parliamentary Committee to prepare for legislation in the parliament, and added that a ‘Research and Analysis Committee’ would also be formed to review the party’s performance, from time to time in future.
He said that by sitting on the opposition benches, the PML would play constructive role as far as the national issues would be concerned ie foreign policy, provision of provincial rights and rights of minorities as well as economic policies.
He said that the morale of party workers and leadership was very high due to the fact that it got more votes than PPP and PML-N in the February 18 elections. He said that according to the Election Commission statement, PML-Q and its coalition got 11.3 million votes, PPP 10.5 million and PML-N got 6.6 million votes.