KARACHI, Aug 13 Pakistan Muslim League-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said his party will not become a party to any move in parliament against former president retired General Pervez Musharraf.

Addressing a press conference at the residence of Sindh PML-Q chief Haleem Adil Shaikh here on Thursday, Mr Hussain said that he had talked to Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain by telephone earlier in the day. “On the MQM chief's idea of according a rousing welcome to Gen Musharraf on his return to the country, I told him that the PML-Q will have no business with any such reception,” Shujaat Hussain said when asked about his visit to “Nine Zero”, the MQM headquarters.

The PML-Q chief arrived in the city on Thursday morning and was accorded a warm welcome by a large number of the party workers and supporters led by Mr Shaikh. The party's Secretary-General Mushahid Hussain Saiyed, Women Wing chief Nilofer Bakhtiar, Amir Muqam, Aziz Malik and other prominent leaders were also present. Mr Hussain visited Mazar-i-Quaid before receiving another warm welcome at “Nine Zero”, where he had a luncheon meeting with the MQM leadership and talked to Altaf Hussain by telephone.

In reply to newsmen's questions, Shujaat Hussain said his party was regaining its popularity in all the four provinces.