ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The Pakistan Muslim League-Q has decided to implement the provision of the Political Parties order (PPO) envisaging separation of the party and public offices, sources say.

The decision was taken by the party president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain during a meeting with a party delegation from Balochistan on Sunday.

The party’s delegation had asked Chaudhry Shujaat to dissociate the provincial party president’s office from that of the office of the chief minister, saying that the party was weakening because of the lack of attention to organisational matters.

The delegation had told the party chief that Chief Minister Jam Mohammad Yusuf was unable to run the party along with the responsibilities of the government.

Balochistan chief minister was subsequently summoned to Islamabad and had been asked to take suitable measures in this connection.

Earlier, two party leaders in Sindh had challenged the holding of party office by federal minister Ghaus Bakhsh Maher in the Sindh High Court on the ground that it violated the PPO’s provisions.

The PML-Q president had asked the party organisations to convene meetings of their respective provincial councils to initiate the process of replacing the party office-bearers who had since been elevated to public offices.

The party chief said, that in the first place the party office bearers should tender their resignations voluntarily, adding that if it was not done, they should be replaced after completing due constitutional process.

None of the party’s office-bearers except Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, who had been the party’s secretary general, had resigned from their respective party offices after assuming the public offices.

Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, chief minister of Punjab, had refused to resign from the post of the party’s provincial president, sources said.