Meeting in jail
\n\u201cParvez Elahi is part of our family, hence I visited him ,\u201d says Chaudhry Shujaat
\nIslamabad
\nPakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Monday visited his cousin and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi in Camp Jail, Lahore, amid the mass exodus of leaders from the former ruling party.
\nOfficials, who had knowledge about the cisit, shared that Shujaat\u2019s son Chaudhry Salik Hussain was also present in the meeting. Shujaat inquired about his cousin\u2019s health and discussed the evolving political situation in the country after the May 9 riots, the sources said.
\nElahi was taken into custody by anti-corruption officials near his residence in Lahore on June 1 in the Rs70 million corruption case related to the embezzlement of development funds allocated for the Gujrat district.
\nThe PML-Q had suspended the basic party membership of Elahi for talking about the possibility of the party\u2019s possible merger with the PTI in January this year. On March 7, the former Punjab chief minister was formally appointed as the PTI president.
\nThe PML-Q president confirmed the report about his meeting with Elahi in the prison.
\n\u201cParvez Elahi is part of our family, hence I visited him [in jail],\u201d he added. Giving details, the senior politician said, Elahi\u2019s health condition was not good and his feet were also swollen.
\nWhen asked if Elahi is rejoining PML-Q, Shujaat said, \u201cParvez Elahi is already in our party.\u201d Shujaat posed a meaningful smile when the reporter told him that Elahi was the president of the PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Meeting in jail \u201cParvez Elahi is part of our family, hence I visited him ,\u201d says Chaudhry Shujaat Islamabad Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Monday visited his cousin and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi in Camp Jail, Lahore, amid the mass exodus of leaders from the former ruling party. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n