PML-Q decides to part ways with PTI

[MenInG]

The PML-Q, a key ally of the PTI in the Centre and Punjab, on Sunday decided that it was parting ways with the ruling party and launching its campaign for the next general elections – after rising tensions between the two coalition partners finally gave way.

The announcement was made after a meeting of the PML-Q’s parliamentary party held under the chair of its Punjab president, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, who is also the speaker of the provincial assembly.

All parliamentarians of the party had empowered the PML-Q’s Punjab chief to decide the fate of its alliance with the government.

The meeting was attended by federal ministers Tariq Bashir Cheema and Moonis Elahi, Senator Kamil Ali Agha, MNAs Salik Hussain, Hussain Elahi, Mrs Farrukh Khan, provincial ministers Hafiz Ammar Yasir, Bao Rizwan, Punjab MPAs Sajid Ahmad Khan Bhatti, Abdullah Yousaf Warriach, Dr Muhammad Afzal, Ehsan ul Haq Chaudhry, Shujaar Nawaz Ajlana, Khadija Umar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa MPA Mufti Ubaidur Rehman and party leader Shafay Hussain.

The PML-Q leaders expressed their concern over the unprecedented increase in the prices of petroleum products and energy tariff as well as the depreciation of the local currency.

They also criticised the PTI government for its failure to rein in crimes and high level of unemployment in the country.

The party’s parliamentarians noted that the people were facing great difficulties in making ends meet because of the “negligence” of the government.

In this bleak situation, how public representatives would face their voters in their constituencies in upcoming general elections, they added.

The parliamentarians maintained that they had cooperated with the ruling PTI and extended all possible support to it. However, they added, it had now become difficult for the PML-Q to continue its partnership with the PTI.

The PML-Q leaders said instead of solving basic public issues, the government was making issues out of “non-issues” and sprinkling salt over people’s wounds.

They underlined that if the government did not pay heed to basic public issues, including inflation and unemployment, the situation would worsen in the country.

A day earlier, the PML-Q had already indicated to go against the PTI over “mistreatment of its workers” in Punjab and for “not being included in the decision-making process”.

“We have been supporting them [the government] in the Centre and Punjab for the past three years but the provincial government is mistreating our workers in every district,” Elahi said while chairing a meeting of the party’s central committee on Saturday.

Elahi announced convening a PML-Q parliamentary party meeting on Sunday in which a unanimous decision will be taken on the future course of action.

In September, PML-Q leader and Federal Water Resources Minister Moonis Elahi met PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari at the latter’s residence in Karachi -- a meeting that is indicative of the two parties’ alliance in the future.

This was the third meeting between the top leadership of PPP, an opposition party, and the PML-Q, a coalition partner of the ruling PTI in Centre and in Punjab, in the past few months.

In August last year, the PML-Q had decided to meet with the leadership of the PTI to take up the issue of “unfulfilled promises”.

Later in November the same year, the PML-Q not only skipped a luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Imran Khan but also accused the ruling party of never trying to address coalition partner’s grievances in the last two years.

Suggesting that the coalition partner was apparently of no value to the PTI government, PML-Q’s Federal Minister for Housing and Works Tariq Bashir Cheema minced no words in expressing his party’s concerns, saying that the only relation between the two parties was of voting for government.

Cheema, while expressing his views on the media, went on to say that the PML-Q was there whenever PTI needed its votes and assistance in the past two years but “unfortunately either PTI doesn’t want to consult with anyone or it doesn’t consider us worthy of it.”

The relationship between the two partners was shaky to start with, and now it has reached its logical conclusion.

The opposition parties have already teamed up under the banner of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) and announced that they would take to the streets against the government.

Now the coalition partners of the incumbent government have started jumping the ship ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Recently, the PML-Q and MQM-P had indicated their reservations over the proposal to use electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the upcoming general elections.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2329492/pml-q-decides-to-part-ways-with-pti

 

[Angrez Pakistani]

Par for the course. PML-Q doesn’t see PTI winning the next elections and are now jumping ship. And off course they know that they may not be the kings of electoral politics but they are fairly sure that they’ll be the king makers in the next elections. So their position is secured. It can also be noted that this breakup leaves them with enough plausible deniability if things go wrong for PTI in next elections. It’s a win win for these guys.

 

[saeedhk]

It seems like Imran would unlikely complete his term. Imran Khan had all the power and he could have the destiny of the country but he flopped big time!

 

[LaLoco]

It seems like Imran would unlikely complete his term. Imran Khan had all the power and he could have the destiny of the country but he flopped big time!

This comment reflect that you failed to understand the 'Politics of Pakistan'.

 

[Bewal Express]

It seems like Imran would unlikely complete his term. Imran Khan had all the power and he could have the destiny of the country but he flopped big time!

Maybe in Delhi that don't tell you that its a minority govt and is dealing with blackmailing partners.

 

[Savak]

Apparently IK has had enough of PML-Q's and MQM's blackmailing and has told them to either toe the line or take a hike and if need be, he will dissolve the assemblies.

 

[saeedhk]

Maybe in Delhi that don't tell you that its a minority govt and is dealing with blackmailing partners.

I am talking about Imran Khan' s disastrous performance. He has broken the back of the average Pakistani and made millions go hungry. I am not sure why Delhi is relevant here.

 

[moghul]

I am talking about Imran Khan' s disastrous performance. He has broken the back of the average Pakistani and made millions go hungry. I am not sure why Delhi is relevant here.

Yeah, lets bring back the golden days of Sharif and Zardais and legalize the corruption .

 

[Mamoon]

Oh no, PML-Q have become corrupt again. They stained their clothes after getting washed by Insaaf washing powder.

On a serious note, they are simply jumping off a sinking ship. Imran and PTI are heading for disaster - he has completely lost control of the situation and is simply waiting to be put out of his misery.

 

[Bewal Express]

I am talking about Imran Khan' s disastrous performance. He has broken the back of the average Pakistani and made millions go hungry. I am not sure why Delhi is relevant here.

But you happy for the average PK to be murdered by Ind proxies, Maybe you should be talking about Why you supported Ind attacking us from Afghanistan. Every time I pose the question you get the runs.

 

[Mamoon]

Yeah, lets bring back the golden days of Sharif and Zardais and legalize the corruption .

That does not change the fact that Imran has flopped badly and the entire country has turned its back on him. He is probably the most despised figure in the nation at this point.

No one buys this corruption and blame-shifting narrative anymore. No one cares about Imran and PTI supporters calling Nawaz/Zardari corrupt. It is not 2017 anymore.

It is 2021, and the country has accepted the fact that Imran can offer nothing except words and is not capable of improving the lives of every day Pakistanis. It is about time overseas Pakistanis come to terms with it as well.

 

[daytrader]

Imran should reveal who’s pressuring him: Shujaat

ISLAMABAD: Expre*ssing his concerns over the trend of leaked audios and videos of politicians that have begun to surface on and off, PML-Q president and veteran politician Cha*udhry Shujaat Hussain on Saturday advised PTI chairman Imran Khan to “spill the beans about those pushing him against the wall”.

Talking to reporters after meeting with Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Barrister Sultan Mehmood, Mr Shujaat said: “Presently, our politics is facing a strange situation. Every day, videos are being played.”

“How will the outside world view our politics?” asked the PML-Q chief in an apparent reference to the recently-leaked audio conversations of former first lady Bushra Bibi and former president Asif Ali Zardari.

When asked to comment on the statement of former prime minister Imran Khan, where he had threatened to spill the beans if pushed to the wall, Shujaat asked Mr Khan to first reveal who was putting pressure on him.

Mr Shujaat also dismissed reports of rifts within the PML-Q, adding that he had no differences with Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervez Elahi. “Have we ever made any statement against each other?” he questioned when asked about possibility of rifts within the Q-League.

The PML-Q chief, however, admitted that there were some “ideological differences” with Mr Elahi, but he downplayed the severity of those differences. adding that such matters could even crop up between a father and his son, and there was no harm in it.

Elders must listen to the viewpoint of the younger generation and political rivalry should not be allowed to become a personal rivalry, he said, in an apparent reference to Mr Elahi’s son, Moonis, who is believed to have pushed his father firmly into the PTI’s camp even as Shujaat lent his support to the PML-N-led coalition government.

The elder Chaudhry also called for free and fair by polls on July 17, while adding that Punjab’s political situation would become clearer after the election.

He also termed national security institutions the “guarantors of Pakistan’s stability”, ostensibly in response to Mr Khan’s incessant criticism on the role of the establishment in his government’s ouster.

DAWN

 

[Bewal Express]

Imran should reveal who’s pressuring him: Shujaat

ISLAMABAD: Expre*ssing his concerns over the trend of leaked audios and videos of politicians that have begun to surface on and off, PML-Q president and veteran politician Cha*udhry Shujaat Hussain on Saturday advised PTI chairman Imran Khan to “spill the beans about those pushing him against the wall”.

Talking to reporters after meeting with Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Barrister Sultan Mehmood, Mr Shujaat said: “Presently, our politics is facing a strange situation. Every day, videos are being played.”

“How will the outside world view our politics?” asked the PML-Q chief in an apparent reference to the recently-leaked audio conversations of former first lady Bushra Bibi and former president Asif Ali Zardari.

When asked to comment on the statement of former prime minister Imran Khan, where he had threatened to spill the beans if pushed to the wall, Shujaat asked Mr Khan to first reveal who was putting pressure on him.

Mr Shujaat also dismissed reports of rifts within the PML-Q, adding that he had no differences with Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervez Elahi. “Have we ever made any statement against each other?” he questioned when asked about possibility of rifts within the Q-League.

The PML-Q chief, however, admitted that there were some “ideological differences” with Mr Elahi, but he downplayed the severity of those differences. adding that such matters could even crop up between a father and his son, and there was no harm in it.

Elders must listen to the viewpoint of the younger generation and political rivalry should not be allowed to become a personal rivalry, he said, in an apparent reference to Mr Elahi’s son, Moonis, who is believed to have pushed his father firmly into the PTI’s camp even as Shujaat lent his support to the PML-N-led coalition government.

The elder Chaudhry also called for free and fair by polls on July 17, while adding that Punjab’s political situation would become clearer after the election.

He also termed national security institutions the “guarantors of Pakistan’s stability”, ostensibly in response to Mr Khan’s incessant criticism on the role of the establishment in his government’s ouster.

DAWN

And this Gujrat baba doesn't know?

 

[Gharib Aadmi]

In the next election their should be no electoral alliance with PML Q. They are snakes, and cant be trusted.