July 23, 2003	Wednesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 22, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, July 22: There is no set agenda for either the ruling PML-Q’s parliamentary party meeting scheduled for Wednesday or for the party’s central working committee to be held on Thursday.

And it is for the first time that these meetings have been convened by the prime minister instead of the party president or the secretary-general, both of whom are abroad.

When asked why the party was holding such high-level meetings in the absence of the president and the secretary-general, and without any agenda, sources close to the PML-Q said these moots would perhaps be used by the members to vent their grievances in the presence of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali.

The most intriguing aspect of the whole thing, according to a party insider, was the inexplicable change in Chaudhry Shujaat’s arrival date from abroad. Earlier, he was scheduled to return home on July 23, but on Monday he informed the party that he would now come back on July 25.