ISLAMABAD Jan 16: The Pakistan Muslim League will send a delegation consisting of party office-bearers and lawmakers to the United States in the first week of February to meet officials of the US administration to convey concern of the people and the party over the INS issue.

This was decided at a meeting of the PML-Q Special Committee held at the Central Secretariat of the Pakistan Muslim League on Thursday, PML-Q Secretary-General Salim Saifullah Khan told newsmen after the meeting of the party on Thursday.

Besides the party secretary-general, Mian Abdul Waheed, Azeem Chaudhry, Syed Kabir Ali Wasti, Muhammad Ayub Khattak and Amina Asghar attended the meeting.

The meeting decided to hand over a letter written by party chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain to the US President, to US Ambassador to Pakistan Nancy Powell.

The delegation members will bear their expenses themselves.

The meeting also decided that its district presidents across the country would get maximum signatures of the general public on a memorandum next Friday, calling upon the United States, on behalf of the people of Pakistan, to shun discriminatory treatment of Muslims, which would be harmful for the US economy.

The meeting asked the Jamali government to ensure that no laxity was shown in resolving the problems being faced by Pakistanis due to the INS issue and reactivate all diplomatic as well as external publicity wings to convey the anxiety of the nation on this important issue.

Soon after the special committee meeting Salim Saifullah Khan called on Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali to apprise him of the decisions taken by the committee.