LAHORE, Jan 7: The PML-Q is open to discussions and cooperation for the national cause, but won’t be a part of any narrow agenda like dislodging or help installing a particular government.

This was said by Chaudhry Shujaat Husain after a meeting with a media house owner on Wednesday who visited Chaudhrys from Gujrat to explore the prospects of unification of PML’s N and Q factions, with the both factions insisting that the move was not initiated by either of them.

Shujaat Husain, the host of the meeting, claimed that the honourable guest “was just trying to explore prospects of unification rather than forcing any particular agenda”.

All options remain open, being discussed and explored. But nothing has been finalised, as yet, he was quoted by one of the participants in the meeting.

Pervaiz Elahi, commenting on the meeting on a private TV channel, reiterated his earlier stance that the party’s Central Working Committee (CWC) had already decided to “play the role of opposition and leadership is bound to follow it.”

Only the CWC was authorised to re-cast the party in any other role, he insisted. If any offer was made to the party, it would be taken to the CWC and consensus would rule, he added.

The PML-N also disowned the initiative when Pervaiz Rashid, the media point man of the party, said Nawaz Sharif obviously respected the sentiments of advocates of the unification, but some bigger issues had to be solved before such wishes could materialise.

The unification could only be discussed with reference to “break-up and its causes, the role that both parties have played in the past eight years and the transformation of both parties,” he said.

He said all issues had to be hammered out before unification issue could come up. For the time being at least, the PML-N sentiment was not in favour of those who sided with dictator and were not even repenting their part, he claimed.—Staff Reporter