August 02, 2008	Saturday	Rajab 29, 1429

LAHORE, Aug 1: Pakistan Muslim League-Q Punjab secretary-general Chaudhry Zaheeruddin Khan has said that his party had no desire to join hands with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).

Commenting on ruling out the possibility of an alliance with PML-Q by PPP leader Senator Raza Rabbani, Zaheeruddin said nobody in his party had any desire to sit with the PPP because its central working committee had unanimously decided not to provide ‘political oxygen’ to any political party standing on the crutches of National Reconciliation Ordinance one month back.

He said that no political party with the slightest intelligence could think of joining a ruling coalition heading towards a doom after failure in solving all the problems faced by the country. People like Senator Rabbani were now trying to divert the attention of the people from the failures of their government by ruling out the possibility of an alliance with the PML-Q.

He said the ruling coalition had led the nation into blind alley of inflation forcing all sections of society to resort to protest. The government coming to power with promises of ‘Roti, kapra aur makan’ had deprived them of the same and were now out to deprive them of their self-respect through card schemes.

Meanwhile, former provincial law minister Raja Basharat has hailed the Lahore High Court’s verdict to suspend the order of dismissal of prosecutors and expressed the hope that they would win the case on merit.