Not very long ago, Q League - the King's Party - was apple of the eyes of the establishment. Ch. Shujaat Hussain was the kingmaker with a hefty bunch of turncoats standing square behind him. Every thing he used to say or do was the law. His protocol was like that of prime minister and his influence that of a head of state. No longer. With the Q League out of power, Chaudhry Sahib stands alone and forlorn with his cousin Ch. Pervaiz Elahi. Everybody who had vowed to stay with him forever has either shifted or seems to be weighing the option of shifting his or her political allegiance to PML-N. The future of Q League looks in doldrums and chances are that it might soon disappear never to appear again. It is, however, appreciable that Chaudhry brothers are resolved to stand firmly their ground in politics. Pervaiz Elahi has time and again made it clear that he would prove the political strength of Q in the whole country without any support from establishment. Political pundits predict that he just might. People in Punjab miss him a lot for undertaking development on an unprecedented scale in the province. Punjab never progressed so much or so fast like it did in Pervaiz Elahi's era. -SHAHID HUSSEIN QABOOLPURIA, Lahore, via e-mail, April 13.