Opposition leaders: Chaudhry brothers lambast Sharifs

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi say they did not see a future for the Punjab government.

LAHORE:

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam’s (PML-Q’s) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and senior leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, on Sunday, said they did not see a future for the Punjab government. However, they both agreed that the future of the province was bright.

The Chaudhris, after condoling with Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP’s) Lahore president and MNA Samina Khalid Ghurki on the demise of her husband, former MNA Khalid Ghurki, spoke with the media.

They said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N’s) chief Nawaz Sharif had stolen their mandate in the Punjab. They said the Sharif’s watch no one’s interest except for their own.

Elahi and Hussain said that PML-Q leaders had met with President Zardari for the sake of improving the situation in the country. They said that all the political parties, as well as the civil society, have criticised PML-N’s promotion of turncoats. They said that issuing statements, as the PML-N does, is not the solution to the country’s problems. Sharif’s invitation to the army and judiciary was meant to hide their own misgovernance in the province. Both the army and the judiciary have their constitutional roles to play, they added. The opposition leaders said that the PML-Q would continue its support for the PPP in the National Assembly as their party wanted to see democracy prevail. Sharif, they added, had ruined Punjab in his three-year tenure as was evident by the 200 cases of dacoity in Lahore every day.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 14^th, 2011.