ISLAMABAD, April 21: Pakistan Muslim League leader Siddiqul Farooq said on Sunday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will return to the country prior to the general elections and would address the public meeting of Alliance for Restoration of Democracy on April 27 in Lahore over telephone.

He was speaking at a press conference about the meeting of PML central working committee and parliamentary committee, that adopted seven resolutions, including one in which the party announced boycott of the referendum. Raja Zafarul Haq presided over the meeting.

The party adopted a unanimous resolution expressing concern over the continuous Israeli aggression against the Palestinians.

The resolution said: “The meeting deplores and condemns the biased attitude of the United States, whose officials on one hand ask for Israeli withdrawal from only the recently occupied Palestinian towns, and on the other hand support the Israeli policies.

‘‘All US pressures are directed against the besieged person of Chairman Yasser Arafat, who has been allowed no access to his people; and yet the US asks him to intervene on behalf of the Israeli interests. The unfair attitude of the United States in evident from the fact that it has obstructed all United Nations efforts to bring peace to the region.”

The PML expressed “deep concern” over the “continued massacre” of Muslims in India, “which even Indian human rights activists have termed as organized genocide, resulting in murder of over 2,500 Muslims in Gujarat and other Indian states since Feb 27.”

Mr Farooq said the meeting expressed “its solidarity with the Kashmiri brethren in their indigenous freedom fight against the Indian occupation.”—APP