PML-Q, AML trying to form alliance

The Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) has geared up its efforts for the formation of an opposition alliance against the elected government led by Nawaz Sharif. On Wednesday, leaders of PML-Q and Awami Muslim League (AML) held a meeting with Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri at his residence and discussed various options for an opposition alliance.
Sources told Business Recorder that leaders of PML-Q and AML would continue their political activities in the holy month of Ramazan in a bid to materialise the plan of a grand opposition alliance against the sitting Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government. Both parties are establishing contacts with other like-minded parties in a bid to persuade them to join an opposition alliance, the sources added.
AML president Sheikh Rashid told media persons that the opposition was moving towards striking a grand alliance against the Nawaz Sharif government. He claimed that he was persuading PTI chief Imran Khan to join the opposition's alliance. He said the AML was an ally of the PTI and it was his desire to unite all opposition parties on a single platform against the elected PML-N government.
Commenting on the Model Town incident, Rashid said that a single-judge commission was formed to 'waste time and save rulers'. He was of the view that removal of Rana Sanaullah was not enough as the nation was demanding resignation of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif. He said the rulers have started making telephonic contacts with Tahirul Qadri in a bid to cover up the Model Town incident.
He said blood of PTA activists would never go waste. PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said opposition parties could unite on one common point. "We are in contact with all opposition parties," he added.
He said: "We are establishing contacts with all political parties while our meetings with like-minded parties would continue in the holy month of Ramazan." Those who are responsible for killings of innocent people would have to be accounted for their misdeeds, he said.
PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said 1,600 workers of Pakistan Awami Tehreek have been booked under terrorism charges. He said there would be no impartial investigations of the Model Town incident without resignation of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
Sources said Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Pervaiz Elahi also held a meeting with Dr Tahirul Qadri at the Minhajul Quran Secretariat late on Tuesday night and evolved future strategy.