PML-Q resents peripheral role in Sindh cabinet

Shujaat moves to soothe grievances of party’s provincial chapter.


Qamar Zaman September 19, 2011

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has expressed its resentment at the peripheral role it has been assigned in the Sindh cabinet.

The ‘marginalised role’ needed to be addressed by the government, the coalition ally reminded Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday.

PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain called the premier to ‘remind’ him of his earlier commitment to address the party’s grievances, after holding a meeting with party members from Sindh, sources told The Express Tribune.

In response to the PML-Q leader’s complaint, PM Gilani asked Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah to attend a meeting with PML-Q leaders in Islamabad in order to address the issue coalition partners were facing.

PML-Q cabinet members from Sindh held a meeting at the residence of Ghaus Bux Maher, the president of the party’s Sindh chapter, the same day. The members apprised the leadership of their concerns at the meeting attended by both Chaudhry Shujat Hussain and Chaudhry Parvez Elahi. The members requested the PML-Q leaders to endorse their decision to formally pull out of the Sindh government. Shujaat, however, opted to seek solutions through contact with the PM.

Earlier, two ministers and two advisers of the Sindh cabinet from the PML-Q had decided to pull out of the Sindh government and sit on the opposition benches. In an attempt to soothe the party’s grievances, President Asif Ali Zardari and PM Gilani had held out the assurance that their issues would be sorted out.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 19th,  2011.

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