As the battle for the \u2018Punjab throne\u2019 intensifies, former governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar has been offered to join Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), it was learnt from local sources on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The sources privy to the matter said that Chaudhry Shujaat met the former PTI leader twice on Sunday and offered him to join his party.
\nConfirming the reports, Sarwar said they met twice and discussed the current political situation in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsultation underway regarding future politics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
A meeting was also held between him and former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani and Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood, he revealed.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of saving their politics, the political leadership should focus on the country\u2019s situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Shujaat rules out dissolution of Punjab Assembly, snap polls
\nFollowing a meeting with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said that the Punjab Assembly will not be dissolved.<\/p>\n
A JUI-F delegation headed by Senator Haideri visited Shujaat at his residence in Lahore and inquired after his health. He also extended best wishes to the PML-Q chief on behalf of his party chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, matters of mutual interest and the unfolding political situation in the country \u2014 particularly in Punjab \u2014 came under discussion.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the occasion, Chaudhry Shujaat ruled out any possibility of early elections in the country.<\/p>\n
Stressing the need to bring the rising prices of flour under control, he said: \u201cIt is the responsibility of all the provincial governments to take action over the [illegal] increase in the prices of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
All the political leaders should make joint efforts to address the country\u2019s problems, the PML-Q president said, adding that the issue of inflation should be given top priority by the leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe leadership should address the collective issues faced by the masses instead of promoting their political slogans,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
On his part, Maulana Haideri criticised Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and said that the former prime minister promoted a culture of abuses in the country.<\/p>\n
Praising the PML-Q senior leader, he said: \u201cChaudhry Shujaat Hussain is the name of tolerance and couth in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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