PML-Q 'suspends' CM Elahi's basic membership

The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) on Monday suspended the basic party membership of Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi for talking about the possibility of his party's possible merger with the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). In his show-cause notice to Elahi, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat called an urgent meeting of the senior leaders. "Your party membership is suspended until the explanation," the notice, a copy of which has also been sent to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), read.