LAHORE, July 31: Senior Federal Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi says all the political parties should sit together to restore peace in the port city.

He was replying to a question during a ‘Meet the Press’ programme at the Press Club on Sunday about target killings in Karachi.

The former Punjab chief minister said the PML-N wanted a clash between the parliament and the judiciary but it would never happen.

He said the N-League was facing worst kind of political isolation due to its wrong attitude and policies. He said it was strangethat those who attacked the apex court were now talking about sanctity of the institutions.

“PML-N leadership has a history of attacking institutions. In the past, Sharifs attacked the Supreme Court and the media. Now they are daily spiting venom against the army,” he said.

Accusing Shahbaz Sharif of personally monitoring the attack on Supreme Court in 1997, he claimed that Shahbaz had through loud-speakers asked the apex court attackers to go to the Punjab House after ‘finishing the job’ to take a sumptuous meal there.

He recalled that Nawaz Sharif termed an apex court order in October 1997 illegal. He said the Sharifs had no respect for courts while his son Moonis came all the way from London to appear before the court.

The former chief minister said the PML-Q provided journalists with residential colonies which were now target of ‘N-League’s land mafia’.

He said the launch of five Utility Store outlets at seven press clubs in the country was meant to provide maximum facilities to the journalists at their doorstep. Mr Elahi also opened a Utility Store outlet at the Lahore Press Club.

He said the N-League shelved underground train project without assigning any reason. He said the light rail project was scheduled to be completed in 2012 and would have resolved transport problems of the provincial metropolis. Prime minister’s advisor Basharat Raja, Senator Kamil Ali Agha and PML-Q parliamentary leader in Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Zaheeruddin were also present.