GUJRAT: Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) president and former prime minister Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain, Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and MNA Moonis Elahi called on senior PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday to condole the death of his son Osama Kaira in a road accident on Friday last.

They offered prayers for the departed soul and said may the Allah Almighty grant fortitude to the Kaira family to bear the loss.

Later, talking to the media at Kaira House, Lalamusa, Shujaat Hussain said in response to a question about the opposition`s recent meeting and protest plan, that the Almighty was the greatest planner, and such (opposition`s) planning `just don`t work`.

Pervaiz Elahi said the biggest tragedy of the N-League was that the opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif had run away, adding in a lighter vein that the party must launch a search for its leader by getting published an advertisement in newspapers.

He said that the opposition was raising hue and cry about the dollar`s rate going up but in fact it had started increasing during the N-League government. He added that the real cause of the country`s present economic situation was `failed policies of N-League` He said it was the opposition`s job to criticise and of the government to withstand it, hoping the things would get better gradually.

Meanwhile, many other political figures from across the country also visited the Kaira House at Lalamusa to offer condolence, including interior minister Ijaz Shah, federal minister for education Shafgat Mahmood, Jamiat Ulema Islam chief Maulana Fazalur Rehman, Jamaat-i-Islami Naib Emir Liaqat Baloch, NA Speaker Asad Qaisar, AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider, former PMs of AJK Barrister Sultan Mahmood, Sirdar Attique Ahmed Khan and Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, PPP Senator Sherry Rehman, PML-N Senator Mushahidullah Khan, Khwaja Asif and Khurram Dastgir Khan and former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.

Nisar Ali Khan told the media that the PML-N and the PPP had been joining hands on different issues in the past and then parting ways again. He added that if the recent meeting between the leaders of the two parties was just another temporary contact it would make no difference.

However, he warned that the common man would be under immense pressure in the next six to eight months as a result of the policies of the PTI government that had decided to go for a $6 billion bailout package of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He said the deal with IMF would prove dangerous for the nation. He said he had heard that Shahbaz would come back to Pakistan.