GUJRAT, Dec 11: Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) provincial head Pervaiz Elahi has said no action should be taken against any one for the Mumbai mayhem without any concrete evidence. And India should first give evidence before pointing finger at someone.

Besides, the resolution unanimously approved at the All-Party Conference should get the nod of parliament, he stressed during a talk with Dawn at the Zahoor Palace on Eid.

Prior to the APC meeting, he said, the government had constituted a committee comprising the Senate and National Assembly members, and the government should activate it. It should also frame an explicit policy to cope with internal and external threats and send out a message to the aggressors that the nation stands united.

Answering a question about his negotiations with the Pakistan People’s Party, Pervaiz Elahi said: “The PML-Q is ready for cooperation with any political party, be it the PPP, for solution to the national problems.” PML-Q MNA Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain and Gujrat District Nazim Chaudhry Shafaat Hussain were also present.

Pervaiz Elahi said the confrontation between the constitutional institutions like parliament and judiciary was not in the national interest as both were independent and work under the constitution. “Politicians should learn a lesson from the past when confrontation between the institutions had damaged the democratic system,” he said.

He lashed out at the Punjab government for its policies of ‘political victimisation’ of the PML-Q supporters. The ex-chief minister advised the rulers to fulfill the promises they had made to the people during their campaigns instead of getting registered baseless cases against their political opponents.

Responding to another question, he said “his party is independent and doesn’t work under the influence of former president Pervez Musharraf as the retired general will have to wait for two years to take part in the politics according to the law.”

He admitted that Benazir Bhutto’s death dealt a blow to the election campaign of the PML-Q in the Feb 18 election, but hastened to add that the survival and unity of the party even 10 months after the election had proved wrong those who had been claiming that the Q league was a history.

And although certain elements tried to disintegrate the party, he said, such people could not get any support from the party and its workers and had to ultimately give up.

While remaining in the opposition, Pervaiz Elahi said, the party could be reorganised at all levels as “it is the best time to strengthen the party”.