Shujaat, Pervez Elahi, Qadri meet in London

LONDON: Pakistan Muslim League-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Pervez Elahi met Awami Tehreek leader Dr Tahirul Qadri on Friday.

Addressing a press conference after the meeting Qadri said that the prevailing system in Pakistan was against the aspiration of people of Pakistan and it would do nothing for the masses.

“I have given 10-point agenda, our meeting with Q-league leaders will continue on Saturday,” he said and added that all those want to eliminate system of corruption and rigging were backing him

Speaking on the occasion, Shujaat Hussain said that his London visit was amid at meeting Tahirul Qadri.

Pervez Elahi said that situation was deteriorating in Pakistan as the incumbent government was based on rigged election

MPs bashing army should be disqualified: Shujaat

 

LAHORE: PML-Q chief Senator Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain says those raising a hue and cry over Article 6 of the Constitution should also read Article 63(g) that clearly states that any parliamentarian who tries to defame the judiciary and the armed forces or uses derogatory language against them will lose their membership of parliament.
Addressing a lawyers’ convention at the Muslim League House here on Saturday, Senator Shujaat said such a big gathering of the protectors of law testifies to the popularity of his party. He said the PML was not defeated by votes but by returning officers (ROs).

He said his party would not allow the passage of the Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO) in its current form. He said a legal cell had been established at the Muslim League House to provide assistance to the poor and the destitute.

Shujaat said the first requirement of law and justice was that everyone should be kept and seen at an equal level without prejudice. “Why is the govt not proceeding against those ministers and disqualifying them under Article 63(g) for publicly admitting that they had delivered speeches against the army and were taking their revenge?”

He said the PML would not have regretted the fact had it lost elections by votes. “Everyone knows that if a commission is set up or an inquiry is held at any time then every bag to be opened will give the same results which were shown in Karachi,” he added.

Shujaat welcomed the decision of the incumbent chief justice of Pakistan to set the provision of justice at a lower level as his first priority. “We should all try to make Pakistan a welfare state as envisioned by Quaid-i-Azam where all citizens, including the minorities, should be equal and the state should protect the life and property of everyone.”

He expressed the hope that the CJ would take practical steps, including the constitution of a special cell, to save overseas Pakistanis’ costly properties from forcible occupation.

The convention was attended by prominent lawyers in large numbers from all over the province. On the stage were seated Aslam Zaar, Asif Cheema, Dr Khalid Ranjha, Ch Anwar Bhinder, Mian Munir, Malik Shakeel Sikander, Engineer Shehzad Elahi, Qamar Hayat Kathia, Abdullah Yousuf and others while Alamgir advocate, Kamil Ali Agha, Muhammad Basharat Raja and Ch Zaheeruddin Khan also addressed the convention.

Lashing out at the incumbent government, the PML leaders said even judges were saying that people were not being provided articles of daily use and fundamental rights. They said according to the superior judiciary, in Punjab alone the accused were acquitted in 90 per cent of cases due to the defective performance of the police and prosecution.

They said today neither bread (roti) nor employment was available to the masses in the Punjab. They said the election of Muslim League representatives in the elections of bar associations was proof of good work done during the PML tenure.

Army shouldn’t be treated as domestic servants: Shujaat

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that the army should not be treated as domestic servants and humiliated.

Talking to reporters at his residence here on Sunday, the former prime minister said the army should be accepted with good intentions. Ch Shujaat said it was rather strange that head of the state was being reported as saying that if Pervez Musharraf is given death sentence and the prime minister writes to him to grant him pardon, he will pardon him. He also asked that whether saying that even before the court verdict would be a contempt of court.

In replying to a question, he said Shahbaz Sharif had not quit politics of vendetta; he tries to rough them up whether they say anything against his family or not. He said they had concrete proofs of victimisation at the hands of Shahbaz Sharif.

Ch Shujaat said one could only smile on the claim of setting up of the biggest steel mills in the world in Chiniot. The present government was not able to run the existing steel mills even, he said.

Ch Shujaat said voters did not defeat the PML-Q but was defeated with the connivance of the returning officers and the army officials had not allowed him and Ch Pervaiz Elahi to enter the office of the returning officer.

Shujaat said the interests of Pakistani farmers should be taken care of in agricultural trade with India, as prices could decrease by importing potato, tomato, ginger from India and it would damage interests of Pakistani farmers.

Ch Shujaat said holding of local government elections was a constitutional requirement and its violation was treason. He claimed that Nawaz-League did not want to hold LG polls.The PML-Q president said that economy of Pakistan could not be set right with the induction of one-and-a-half billion dollars. The PML-Q government had broken the begging bowl but the incumbent rulers have picked up a “deg” for the purpose.