PESHAWAR, Nov 3: Condemning the arrest of Acting President of the Pakistan Muslim League, Jawed Hashmi, by the National Accountability Bureau, the provincial secretary-general of the party, Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, said on Friday that the party would not change its stand on the Afghanistan issue despite government’s pressure.

In a press release issued here on Friday, Mr Jhagra said that soon after the PML central working committee’s decision to launch a movement against the government’s Afghan policy, Mr Hashmi was arrested.

Mr Jhagra termed the NAB Ordinance a draconian law which the government had been using to victimise its opponents.

He said that just for the sake of dollars, the government had joined hands with the US in killing innocent Afghan people. He regretted that from a country, created in the name of Islam, warplanes were flying to bomb another Muslim country.