ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: Pakistan Muslim League-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain announced on Sunday that he would nominate a special committee in a few days to run party affairs, but made it clear that internal elections would be held on schedule in August next year.

He made the announcement at a press conference after the party’s Central Executive Committee had reposed confidence in his leadership.

Among others who attended the CEC meeting were Hamid Nasir Chattha, Farooq Leghari, Humayun Akhtar Khan, Gohar Ayub, Salim Saifullah, Nisar Mohammad and Akram Zaki.

Mr Leghari, who had played a mediatory role, made an impatient appeal to members to keep the party intact.

Chaudhry Shujaat said differences in the party leadership had been sorted out. The meeting decided that any member having complaints about the running of the party should not go to the media and anyone doing so would face disciplinary action.

Responding to a question about allegations that the previous government had reached an agreement with the United States on drone attacks, he said that if any agreement was there, either in writing or otherwise, the new government should scrap it.

He warned that a war between India and Pakistan could break out if the issue of water flow from rivers in occupied Kashmir was not resolved soon.

The PML-Q chief appealed to all Pakistanis, including politicians and bureaucrats, to bring their money back from foreign banks and urged the government to provide legal cover to such transactions.

When asked how much money he, his family and leaders of his party would volunteer to bring back, he said: “We do not want to indulge in blame game and offer to the government to come up with a formula to enable everyone to demonstrate his love for the country.”

The CEC meeting adopted 13 resolutions, one of which called upon India to release all Kashmiri leaders, stop atrocities being perpetrated against innocent people and declare elections in the occupied Kashmir as farce.

The meeting expressed grave concern over the renaming of the NWFP as Pakhtoonkhwa and said the controversy posed a threat to national integrity and security. It demanded that the issue should be resolved through consultation among all the stakeholders.

It called for providing protection to local government institutions which, it said, were constitutional bodies.

Expressing grief over the killing of innocent people in missile strikes in Swat, Bajaur and Bannu, the CEC asked the government to take practical steps to get such attacks stopped and seek a way in accordance with the resolution adopted by the joint session of the two houses of parliament.

Another resolution expressed concern over rising incidents of excesses against women and heinous crimes in the name of ‘karo kari’ and demanded that the culprits involved in burying alive of five women in Nasirabad district of Balochsitan and the murder of Taslim Solangi in Sindh be exposed and given exemplary punishment.

It also demanded disbanding of the Guantanamo Bay prison and called for early release of Pakistani prisoners detained there.The CEC demanded immediate repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from the US and said that she should be provided medical and legal help.