PML(Q)
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Pakistan Muslim League
پاکستان مسلم لیگ PML |
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| President | Shujaat Hussain |
| Secretary-General | Tariq Bashir Cheema |
| Spokesperson | Kamil Ali Agha |
| Founder |
Mian Muhammad Azhar Shujaat Hussain |
| Founded | 20 July 2002 |
| Split from | Pakistan Muslim League (N) |
| Headquarters | Parliament lodges, Parliament House, Islamabad |
| Youth wing | PML Youth Wing |
| PML Minorities Wing | Kalpana Devi |
| Ideology |
Nationalism Progressivism Liberalism Libertarianism |
| Political position | Centre |
| Colors | Light Green |
| Slogan | Live, let live... Giving hope to the hopeless |
| Senate |
4 / 104
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| National Assembly |
2 / 342
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| Punjab Assembly |
8 / 371
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| Balochistan Assembly |
5 / 65
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| Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly |
3 / 33
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The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid e Azam Group) Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ق); Acronyms: PML(Q), PML-Q, PMLQ) is a centre-nationalist political party in Pakistan. Currently it has a representation of 2 seats in the Parliament in the latest parliamentary elections held in 2013. It had previously served as a strong ally of former Prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf's previously led-government, and led a joint election campaign in 2013 alongside Pakistan Peoples Party in Punjab and Balochistan provinces against its rival Pakistan Muslim League (N), a fiscal conservative and centre-right force.
Its leadership and the members were once part of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) presided by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, but after the 1997 general elections, the political differences arose that ultimately led to the creation of the faction inside of its own party. The party's dissidents, led by Shujaat Hussain, raised their voices calling for the strong and vocal support for the 1999 military coup d'état staged and led by then-Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Pervez Musharaff. In 2002, dissident leaders formed and launched the party platform, focusing onto President Pervez Musharraf government, later became an integral part of Musharraf's government after appointing its own Prime minister, Shaukat Aziz. The leader of the dissidents, Shujaat Hussain was named party's president, while party began the annihilation of PML(N)'s structure. The full advantage was taken by President Pervez Musharraf who granted opportunities to the party with an initial and focusing goal of exclusive support of the government and to lessen and diminish the public support of Navaz Sharif in the country. The National security adviser Tarik Aziz had played a pivotal role who "had engineered the idea in advance of the elections of 2002 of converting the PML(N)'s centre-right ideology back to centrism, PML(Q), the Q standing for "Quaid-e-Azam". However the engineered idea collapse when PML (N) did emerged as the largest conservative front as well as the largest opposition party in the parliament. Furthermore, the party suffered many setback in post-elections when its members began to disintegrate after forming the separate bloc with close association with the PML-N, first being the Like-Minded bloc and Avami League bloc and second, the former president's bloc. Senior members either proceeded to join the PML-N, while the junior leadership defected to Pakistan Movement for Justice.
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