ISLAMABAD : PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Wednesday termed the break up between two main coalition partners as separation and not divorce.

“Since the ruling coalition is based on doctrine of necessity and not principles, we think that this coalition would remain intact. The PML-N wants its government to stay in Punjab and it would not ditch the PPP government in the center”, he said while talking to the media here after a meeting of the PML Senators and party office-bearers.

He said all the PML-Q Senators had passed a unanimous resolution expressing full confidence in the leadership of PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.

Mushahid further said the party meeting had also passed a unanimous resolution, expressing grief over the fatal earthquake in China. He said the meeting communicated sympathy with the quake-affectees and a PML delegate would visit the Chinese Embassy to convey the message from the Pakistani people that the entire nations share the pain and misery of the Chinese nation.

He also informed the media that a high-level delegation of US embassy headed by US Consul General Peter Bode called on PML President and gave a detailed briefing over the Pak-US relations and US assistance to Pakistan.

Mushahid criticised the government for allegedly victimising the bureaucracy, saying that this was a perilous trend which might damage the state institutions.

“The exit of Foreign Secretary Riaz Muhammad Khan and the termination of the contract of Director ISSP Shireen M. Mazari are part of political victimisation strategy. This tendency would escalate harassment in the bureaucratic circles and would take the government nowhere”, he suggested. APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2008

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