LAHORE: The PML-Q has decided to hold intraparty election next month.

The decision was taken at a meeting here on Tuesday which was presided over by Chaudhry Shujaat Husain.

Chaudhry Pervalz Elahi, Tariq Bashir Cheema, Chaudhry Zaheeruddin, Basharat Raja, Moonis Elahi, Shafat Husain, Dr Khalid Ranjha, Dr Azeemuddin Lakhvi and party MPAs were also present.

`The PML has begun the process of intra-party elections which will be completed by the next month across the country,` PML-Q Punjab organiser Basharat Raja told Dawn after the meeting.

The PML-Q provincial and districts organisations were dissolved about five months ago.

`The provincial and district organisers have been asked to give their input in this regard and a party election commission will be constituted next month,` Mr Raja said, adding the Election Commission of Pakistan had been duly informed to the effect.

The ECP last month declared that political parties failing to hold intraparty election would be barred from taking part in coming by-polls till they meet the legal requirement.

The parties which have not yet held the intra-party elections include the ruling PML-N,Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Awami National Party (ANP) and PML-Q.

The meeting also decided that Punjab President Pervaiz Elahi would undertake extensive tour of all districts beginning from Rawalpindi division after Muharram. The reorganisation of the party at the provincial and district level would be completed within 15 days.

Shujaat appreciated PML leaders and workers for their efforts in reorganisation. He said the party valued those who remained with it despite fabricated cases and discriminatory treatment by those at the helm.

`We believe in serving the common man and making efforts to change the fate of the poor,` Shujaat said.

Some senior leaders apprised the meeting of party reorganisation and other activities in their respective areas and expressed their views openly on all matters.

The meeting also condemned Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir and expressed solidarity with the Kashmiris.

`Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi should expect tit for tat response from Pakistan and not to think of stopping its water. Those in India talking about stopping our water should not forget that Pakistani nation is capable of of giving a befitting response to them. They must not underestimate us, Shujaat said.