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ISLAMABAD - With Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat

Hussain set to send references against its eight lawmakers to NA Speaker Fehmida Mirza today (Thursday) under the defection clause 63-A, PML-Likeminded Secretary-Information Kashmala Tariq has questioned Shujaat’s authority as the “party head”, saying Article 63-A would only be applicable after next election.

“Under the direction of the party chief Shujaat Hussain, our lawyer SM Zafar will submit the references against the party’s eight defecting lawmakers under Article 63-A to NA speaker today,” a source said.

This would be the first case to be examined by the NA speaker as well as new Chief Election Commissioner Justice (r) Fakharuddin G Ebrahim.

Ebrahim would face a test as he was nominated by the PML-N that is an ally of the PML-LM, whose five MNAs are facing disqualification. All eight members of the National Assembly who were elected on the PML-Q ticket in 2008 election had abstained from voting for Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf against party’s decision to support the PPP’s nominee.

A source in the PML-Q told Pakistan Today that the party leadership had decided to send references against the party violators in view of the recent developments. “The party leadership has decided to send references against including Kashmala Tariq, Amir Muqam, Krishan Chand Perwani, Ghulam Haider Samijo, Humayun Saifullah Khan, Khadim Hussain Wattoo, Asim Nazir Jutt and Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari under defection clause as none of them have responded to our show-cause notices served on them until August 2, the deadline mentioned in the notices.

Now, they would have to face the music,” PML-Q Deputy-Secretary Information Mustafa Malik told Pakistan Today. He said that the party’s leadership, including Adviser to PM Basharat Raja, Women’s Wing President Farrukh Khan, Faqir Hussain Bokhari and others remained in the PML House on Thursday afternoon, but they received no response from any of the lawmakers in question. “However, Krishan Chan Perwani and Kashmala Tariq’s rejoinders were received at around 4pm after the deadline had lapsed. Hence, disciplinary action has been initiated against all eight lawmakers,” he said. Malik said Sumaira Malik and Dr Donya Aziz had also avoided the prime minister’s election but both of them had informed the party leadership about their prior plans to visit abroad. Sumaira was in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah while Donya Aziz was in the US when Ashraf was elected the prime minister.

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