Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that his party will emerge as a heavyweight party in the forthcoming elections. Talking to a private TV channel, he regretted that everybody is criticising the steps, taken by President Pervez Musharraf against the judiciary, but his positive steps should be not ignored.
He said that Pakistanis accorded a warm welcome to President Pervez Musharraf in Switzerland and France while many parties had planned to stage demonstrations against President Pervez Musharraf in London.
Answering a question about the national nuclear arsenal, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said that Pakistan has adopted a stand that its nuclear weapons are safe. "No foreign power should have any concern over it and refrain from talking against our nuke assets", he said.
The PML-Q chief said those who are raising fingers at our nuclear programme, their own countries have set up arms factories on large scale for mass production of weapons. Responding to a question, he said his party is canvassing on the basis of its seven-year performance while other political parties have done no performance.
"Their leaders have returned home after eight years and now, they are electioneering", he added. To a question about the deposed judges, he said lawyers who have refused to accept judges who were sworn-in under the PCO, they should know that the judges had also taken oath under the PCO in the past. He said the PML(Q) is a political party which formulated administrative rules and decided that no one should be appointed as the chairperson and president of the party thrice. When asked about his recent meeting with Altaf Hussain, he said the meeting lasted one and half hours and he urged him to keep an eye on the elections.
To another query, he ruled out any possibility for the formation of the national government. When asked about the probe of Benazir's assassination, he said that they are not a party the case of her murder and wanted an impartial investigation of the assassination. "The leadership of the PPP should rely on the investigation of the local detectives" he suggested.
Turning to the incident took place with Chaudhry Wajahat Hussian at Heathrow Airport, he said that his ailing relative was captivated in a cell for seven hours and not provided any medical treatment. "This is not a new incident, such examples are also galore in the past", he noted. Chaudhry Shujaat said that no one challenged such maltreatments in the past and he challenged it. Resultantly, the British consulate had to apologise for it.