Yai Mai-Khana hai Yaah Sub Kee Pagri Uchalti Hai !
Sheesh, what dirt games going on , Pervez used to say BB and Zardari the most corrupt couple of Pakistan while Zardari time and again declared Q League as Qatil League but see what they are doing for power and to throw Shahbaz Sharif out of scene.Since they themselves cannot deliver any good governance ,so they jealosu why SS is doing it in Punjab. Allah reham karai …
**Zardari, Pervaiz finalise power-sharing deal
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Rauf Klasra**
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi are said to have given final touches to their new power-sharing deal over a late night secret dinner at the Presidency last Sunday.
But this time, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain decided to stay away from the meeting with Zardari and preferred to send Pervaiz Elahi along with Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain and Moonis Elahi to ink an unannounced deal with the president, who was said to be desperate to get two-third majority in the Senate at all costs in the forthcoming elections in March.
That is why, the sources said, Zardari was not bothered at all about his own shocking allegation against the same leaders of the PML-Q a year back for playing a hand in the murder of his wife Benazir Bhutto.
An intelligence agency guy, who got himself transferred from FIA, and is based in Lahore, is said to have played a major role in facilitating the meeting between these two rival camps, and was said to be present at the dinner. In addition to him, a property tycoon of Islamabad, who is said to be a mutual friend of both the politicians, was also behind the scene to ensure that his two friends do come close to each other to get rid of Shahbaz Sharif in Punjab.
The sources said under the proposed deal, Moonis Elahi would be the senior minister in the new government in Punjab while, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain would be the consensus candidate for the Senate along with Kamil Ali Agha, whose term is also coming to an end this March. The sources said the same formula would also be applied at the federal level once the Senate elections were over as the PML-Q leaders might get some share in the ministries.
The secret meeting in which future plan of cooperation was finalised between Zardari and Elahi, was arranged by Deputy Director Intelligence Bureau Lahore Ahmed Riaz Sheikh, who was also present at the dinner held at the presidency on Sunday night. However, Riaz Sheikh told The News that this was incorrect information as he was doing his NIPA course and did not have any knowledge about the meeting.
Meanwhile, talking to The News, Moonis Elahi said he did not know anything about the meeting. But he said there might have been an invitation from the Presidency. But he said he did not meet anyone and to him this meeting did not take place.
This correspondent also contacted Dr Qayaum Soomro, personal secretary to the president to get his views. But, he neither denied nor confirmed the meeting between Elahi and Zardari at the Presidency over a dinner. After a brief pause, he told this correspondent that let him first talk to someone before denying or confirming the meeting. He promised to return the call, which he never did unlike his traditional temperament, which made him quite popular among the journalists since he started lobbying for imprisoned Zardari since 1996. Before filing this story this correspondent again made a call to Dr Soomro to get his response but this time he did not attend the call.
Earlier, the first indirect contact between the Chaudhrys and Zardari camp was developed through Dr Qayaum Soomro when the frightened Chaudhrys of Gujrat had secretly visited his house to break the ice between the spouse of assassinated Benazir Bhutto and Pervaiz Elahi after Zardari had declared the PML-Q as ‘Qatil League’ during his first press conference after chairing the party meeting at Naudero on December 30, 2007.
Dr Soomro had also visited the houses of Chaudhrys many times over dinner as it was confirmed by Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain while talking to The News. Once the powerful Chaudhrys had visited the house of private secretary to President Zardari only after the Punjab government had decided to tighten its noose around Moonis Elahi on charges of corruption in the Bank of Punjab scandal. However, Moonis had strongly rejected the reports of his involvement in the scam. After few days of this secret meeting between Soomro and Chaudhrys, the main architect of the scam Hamesh Khan was allowed to fly out of Pakistan from Peshawar airport despite the fact that his name was on the Exit Control List. This great help had played as a major role in bridging the gap between Zardari and Chaudhrys.
Later, Governor Punjab Salman Taseer was asked to stay in touch with the Chaudhrys in Punjab so that his frequent meetings could facilitate the final meeting between Zardari and Chaudhrys to ink the deal at a ‘proper’ time. The sources said, this was for the first time that Zardari invited the Chaudhrys at the Presidency where he discussed in detail the future political cooperation. The source said, the fast diminishing chances of an alliance with Nawaz Sharif had finally forced the Chaudhrys to enter into a deal with Zardari to get something at least for Moonis Elahi and Shujaat Hussain, who otherwise are finding it difficult to get one seat from Punjab in the senate election because of rising influence of the PML-N in the ranks of disgruntled elements within the PML-Q.