“No war, no peace” is how the Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) describes its current relationship with President Pervez Musharraf. “PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's refusal to step down as the party president to vacate the berth for Hamid Nasir Chattha as Musharraf wills is final,” a senior PML-Q leader told this correspondent. He said that the public assertions of Shujaat and PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Saiyed that they would keep their present party offices till 2009 because they had been elected till that time have given a clear message to Musharraf that they would not accept his dictation on this count. “We know that the president wants to ‘deliver' the PML-Q to Asif Zardari so that the Pakistan People's Party co-chairman is further relieved of the pressure being exerted on him by the PML-N,” the PML-Q leader said. He claimed that Musharraf has now realized that his efforts to push away Shujaat have failed. However, he said that the president continues to pamper PML-Q leader Chattha, who is acceptable to Zardari for his old political ties with assassinated Benazir Bhutto. The PML-Q has noticed a visible change in Nawaz Sharif's approach towards it and that he is no more attacking Shujaat as he used to. It feels that the PML-N chief has now single-mindedly focused his onslaught on the president. __
