November 4, 2002	Monday	Sha’aban 28,1423

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RAWALPINDI, Nov 3: The PML-Q parliamentary leader, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, has said that his party would emerge as a strong political force in Rawalpindi and other major cities of the country.

The PML-Q leader was talking to a delegation of party workers from Rawalpindi, who met him under the leadership of the PML-Q Rawalpindi cantonment president, Khawar Butt, here on Sunday. T he party’s central vice-president, Syed Kabir Ali Wasti, was also present on the occasion.

The delegation included Raja Abrar Kiani Advocate, Sarfraz Hashmi, Ijaz Sheikh, Syed Zaheer Ahmed, Raja Fayyaz and Asif Bhatti.

Chaudhry Shujaat asked the PML-Q office-bearers and workers to complete their homework so that potential nominees should be fielded for the national and provincial assembly seats of Rawalpindi in coming by-election.

“The PML-Q will be reorganized in all major cities including Rawalpindi to enable the party to emerge as a strong political force in urban centres,” the parliamentary leader said.

AGENCIES ADD: Chaudhry Shujaat said the PML-Q was making sincere efforts to avert any deadlock and is paving the way for flourishing of democracy in the country.

Chaudhry Shujaat said the political forces should show flexibility towards vital issues including Legal Framework Order.

The PML-Q is against political polarization and conversion of political differences into personal enmities, he added.

The leader said the PML-Q government would introduce reforms to ensure provision of health cover, educational facilities, clean drinking water, justice, food, shelter and other facilities.

Members of national and provincial assemblies from different cites of Punjab called on the PML-Q parliamentary leader here on Sunday.

The candidate for the slot of Punjab chief minister, Chaudhary Pervez Elahi, was also present on the occasion.

While talking to the legislators, Chaudhary Shujaat said the PML-Q was in a comfortable position to form the government in centre and provinces.

He said that his party was also trying to form an alliance with Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and other like minded parties.

Newly elected women member of the PML-Q also held a meeting with the party’s parliamentary leader.

Our Correspondent from Attock adds: The MNA-elect of the PML-Q, Malik Amin Aslam, while opposing changes in party defection laws said that relaxation of floor-crossing laws would disturb the newly established democratic norms and promote horse-trading.

In a statement on Sunday, the PML-Q leader said the political culture had already been maligned in the country.

The delicate state of our transition to democracy can not afford yet another blow to its moral standing, he added.

Mr Aslam said: “Ugly practice of horse-trading has been buried by the defection laws and any relaxation can breath new life into the ill-principled practice one again.”