LAHORE, Nov 26: Opposition leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan says allowing US forces ground operations in the country will entail serious consequences. He was talking to the media here on Friday after offering condolence to PML-Q Secretary-General Mushahid Husain Sayed and Mowahid Husain Sayed on the death of their mother.

Referring to reports that officials of the CIA, a US intelligence agency, had been allowed to operate in Quetta, he said the step would cause serious repercussions as far as the sovereignty and security of the country was concerned.

He said the incumbent government always involved foreign powers in internal affairs.

About the agencies’ stance in the Supreme Court that they could not be made a party to any case in a court of law, Khan said no agency or institution was above the law of the land and they would have to surrender to the Constitution.

He said there should be an end to extrajudicial treatment of the masses, a reference to 11 prisoners who went ‘missing’ from Adiala Jail.

Replying to a query about the reformed general sales tax, he said the government lacked the required number to get the bill passed from the National Assembly. He said the government should collect taxes but from those who were not paying the same instead of further squeezing those who were already bearing the tax burden.