FAISALABAD, March 11: The PML-N’s Central Executive Committee will decide future course of action about the Sanaullah incident, party’s chairman Raja Zafarul Haq said on Tuesday.

He was speaking at a news conference at the DHQ Hospital here after visiting MPA Rana Sanaullah.

Raja Zafarul Haq regretted the statement of Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali that the kidnapping and torture of Sanaullah was a provincial matter.

“I have dispatched a letter to the prime minister and the Punjab chief minister for taking action against the personnel involved in kidnapping and torture of Sanaullah.”

He said that the incident would also be brought to the notice of international human rights organizations and ambassadors of other countries in Pakistan.

Mr Raja said that a committee comprising opposition leaders had been set up to decide the mode of protest and future line of action against the Legal Framework Order. The committee had also been empowered to hold dialogue with the treasury benches.

He said the kidnapping and torture of Rana Sanaullah was a clear signal to the elected representatives and general public that they should not raise voice against the black laws and misdeeds of the rulers.

He said that the incident was a deep rooted conspiracy hatched by the anti-democratic elements against the elected representatives.

“The PML-N leaders are ready to defend the rights of the people as well as prestige of the elected parliament at all costs.”

PML-N chief coordinator Ahsan Iqbal said that the steps taken by Gen Pervez Musharraf to prolong his rule by involving intelligence agencies and armed forces could be dangerous for the federation.

Former federal minister and MNA Raja Nadir Pervez said that the Speaker did not allow him to raise voice against the torture of Sanaullah in National Assembly’s Monday session.

Former MNAs Zafar Ali Shah, Ghulam Dastagir, Mian Abdul Mannan, Chaudhry Safdar Rahman, Akram Ansari and others said that Mr Jamali should not link the issue of LFO with the survival of the National Assembly. They said that the Supreme Court decision was also being wrongly interpreted by the rulers.

They claimed that the days of the government had been numbered.

STRIKE: The Bar associations of Faisalabad, Jaranwala, Samundari and Tandlianwala observed strike for the second day to protest against torture of Sanaullah.