BAHAWALPUR: Former prime minister and PML-Q chief Ch Shujaat Hussain assured on Saturday that his party would fully support the public mandate and that the government will complete its tenure, with no possibility of holding mid-term elections.
Addressing a news conference here on Saturday at the residence of former provincial minister Ch Tariq Bashir Cheema, Husssain believed that the memogate controversy was baseless and being used to destabilise the civilian government. Expressing doubt about the validity of the memo, Hussain said that President Asif Ali Zardari was “not a child” who needed intermediaries for correspondence with the US government.
Furthermore, Hussain questioned PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif’s intentions, referring to his recent statement where he pledged support for the creation of the Bahawalpur province. Hussain asked why his brother, Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif, hadn’t made a statement doing the same. Speaking about PML-Q dissidents, Hussain said that everyone in politics had the right to join or quit any party.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 20th, 2011.
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I'm afraid to say its about time to hold elections. The current "government" has failed enormously.
Chaudhry Sahib:
Will you support if residents of Karachi want a separate province?
Or you willingness of making more provinces is restrict up to Punjab only?
Every day 45,000 people are added in the population of Karachi, so Karachi should also be declared a separate province.
What do you say?
There is no scope of mid term election in Pakistan . The govt , is committed to eradicate terrorism at all cost .
PML-Q has finally perished and have come to its end. Joining PPP is the last option for Shujaat to exist in the political arena.
Mid-term election is the ONLY way to clean-up the mess
Chaudhry Sahib, Government has completed two third term, therefore it should not be called mid-term elections.
He knows better because he dines with ISI on regular basis... we all know that