PESHAWAR, Oct 21: The PML-N parliamentary party nominated the MPA-elect, Anwar Kamal, its parliamentary leader in the NWFP assembly at its meeting on Monday.

Mr Kamal had won PF-76, Lakki Marwat-III, and defeated Jamil Ahmed Khan of the PML-Q. All the five MPAs-elect attended the meeting which was presided over by provincial PML-N chief Pir Sabir Shah.

In his speech, Shah held the government responsible for the “engineered defeat” of his party. The government had victimized his party, yet it had polled 3.5 million votes and kept its vote bank intact, he said.

Describing his party’s defeat as target killing, he said the government had done so to express its abhorrence towards democracy and supremacy of parliament.

He said the PML-N would be reorganized and added that it was necessary for the integrity of the country.

Criticizing the military rulers, he said that although 11 days had passed since the elections were held yet the rulers had failed to convene the session of National Assembly.

Shah called upon the government to convene the National Assembly session and transfer the power to the elected representatives forthwith.

He urged the newly-elected representatives to work for the restoration of the 1973 Constitution. “Let the future parliament decide about the nature of the governance in the country.”

The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, he said, had emerged as a liberal religious force in the country and the PML-N would extend all its support to it for giving an end to adventurism.

The PML leader claimed that the government was still busy in the post-elections rigging as it had withheld results of some of the PML-N winners in certain areas. He asked the Chief Election Commissioner to refrain form converting the PML-N victory into a defeat in the PF-46, Abbottabad.

The meeting adopted certain resolutions, reposing its confidence in the leadership of Mian Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and others struggling for the restoration of democracy.

It demanded an early and unconditional release of all the political prisoners, restoration of the Constitution and doing away with the Legal Framework Order. It urged re-election of the president through parliament.

Secretary-general Sar Anjam Khan, ARD secretary-general Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, former chief ministers Sardar Mehtab Abbasi, former provincial ministers Abdus Subhan Khan and Yousuf Ayub Khan were also present.

Sar Anjam Khan and Anwar Kamal suggested that the judges of superior courts should be administered a fresh oath under the 1973 Constitution.