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| February 25, 2003 | Tuesday | Zul Hijjah 23, 1423 |
Shujaat not opposed to Sharifs’ return
LAHORE, Feb 24: Pakistan Muslim League (QA) President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain said on Monday the return of Nawaz Sharif or Shahbaz Sharif to Pakistan was a matter between the government and the Sharif family.
Talking to the newsmen after the Punjab Assembly session, he said the Sharif family had gone to Saudi Arabia without consulting the party members, adding Shahbaz could come back provided the government agreed to his return. “We have no objection to the return of Nawaz or Shahbaz,” he said.
He called for the Iraq-like United Nations session on Kashmir to settle the dispute. He added that the UN sessions were being called to discuss the Iraq crisis, but no session had been summoned to discuss the Kashmir issue, which had been a bone of contention for the past more than 50 years.
Mr Husain said his party would support humanity and the government should prefer people’s aspiration.
To a question on plane crash, which killed Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir near Kohat, the PML-Q leader said there was no need to make a scandal or taking any political advantage out of the tragic incident. “Some technical fault has so far appeared to be the cause of the accident,” he said.
To another question, he called relations between his party and the MMA ‘good,’ as both had jointly contested the Senate elections for the Islamabad seats.
Asked whether the Senate chairman will be from the Punjab or Sindh and when the party and government offices will be separated, he said the question of Senate chairman’s appointment would be decided after the polls.
To the second part of the question, he said chief ministers and ministers would have to quit the party offices and they had already been asked to do so as soon as possible.
He hoped that separating the office of the parliamentary leader and the prime minister would strengthen democracy.
“The workers will have easy access to the party office-bearers and get resolved their problems.”
He added that there was room for improvement in the provincial governments’ performance, and stressed the need for constructing more dams for overcoming the water shortage.—APP
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