PML-Q divided over holding of elections

ISLAMABAD,—PML-Q is divided over holding of elections on January 8 following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. PML-Q Sindh chapter has demanded of party leadership that elections be got postponed voicing fear that PML-Q would stand eliminated from the entire Sindh if elections would be held on January, 8.
On the other side PML-Q secretary general Mushahid Hussain Syed while talking to media said elections could be postponed. These should be held after Moharram ul Haram, he said adding, “It is my personal opinion”. Party is also divided on this issue.
Sources told Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervez Elahi wants that elections should take place on January, 8. While PML-Q Sindh president Arbab Ghulam Rahim and other candidates of the party wanted postponement of elections. Likewise PML-Q Balochistan leadership is also not in favor of elections to take place as per schedule.
Sources informed Chaudhry brothers have sought time from President Pervez Musharraf for a meeting in this connection.
The Sherpao faction of the Pakistan Peoples Party on Saturday made participation in the elections 2008 conditional with Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP), said Chairman PPP(S) Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao.
A meeting of the PPP(S) was held here at Peoples House Chairman of PPP(S) Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao in the chair. The meeting was called to review the current political situation viz a viz terrorism in the country. Addressing the meeting, the former Interior Minister said, “if the PPPP goes for the boycott of the elections, then the PPP(S) would follow the suit as elections minus PPPP would have no credibility”.—Online