ISLAMABAD, May 15: Pakistan Muslim League-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain called on President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday and, according to reliable sources, exchanged views with him on the controversy sparked by reports about changes in the party leadership and other issues.

The meeting was arranged by ‘mutual friends’ to ease tension between the PML-Q leadership and the presidency over proposed reunification of the party under a new leader.

Chaudhry Shujaat was accompanied by his brother Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain MNA, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and former information minister Mohammad Ali Durrani.

They apprised the president of the party’s stand on a number of issues, including the collapse of the ruling coalition.

Sources close to the Chaudhrys claimed that “the president agreed that Chaudhry Shujaat should continue to lead the PML-Q.”

The Chaudhry brothers, the sources said, also met Chaudhry Hamid Nasir Chattha who, according to some reports, was considered as a replacement for Chaudhry Shujaat, to make the PML-Q acceptable to the PPP as a possible coalition partner.

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