ISLAMABAD, Oct 23: Pakistan Muslim League(Q) parliamentary leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has favoured a prime minister from a smaller province, saying it will help remove the sense of deprivation.

“I personally believe that the prime minister should come from a smaller province,” the PML leader told BBC radio.

However, he said, there in democracy the party which commanded majority in the house had the right to nominate the prime minister.

The PML(Q), he further said, had not yet nominated anyone for the slot of prime minister because it wanted its allies to have confidence in the person nominated for the post.

To a question, he said, his party was trying to have a national consensus government as first thought. Secondly, it was making efforts to form a government in collaboration with the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

He expressed satisfaction over his meeting with the MQM, hoping that both the parties would work together in the interest of the country.

This was the first meeting, he said, during which mutual complaints and apprehensions came under discussion.

“We urged them to start afresh keeping the interest of the nation and country in view and they agreed to our proposal,” he maintained.—APP