Split appears in PML-Q ranks

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Q here on Wednesday fractured into two factions within 48 hours of the ouster of party’s creator Pervez Musharraf as more than twenty party MNAs against the whim of Q-League’s central command called on Prime Minister at lunch and dinner in two separate groups.

A delegation of party legislators comprising Arbab Zakaullah, Jam Mir Muhammad Yousaf, Sardar Bahadur Ahmed Khan Sihar, Amjad Abbas, Jaffar Khan Leghari, Engineer Usman, Ghulam Hyder Samejo, Dewan Aashiq Hussain Bukhari, Mehboob Sultan, Saima Bharwana, Saeed Zafar and Riaz Fatiana called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and had a lunch with him.

Though Q-League legislators termed it a courtesy call meant to develop congenial relations between treasury and Opposition benches yet the sources told this correspondent that in the meeting PML-Q lawmakers assured the Prime Minister of their full support in the forthcoming presidential election. The presence of Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo in the meeting further strengthens the idea that the meeting was more than a goodwill gesture.