ISLAMABAD, July 2: Pakistan Muslim League -Nawaz group has decided to communicate their protest to democtartic countries over deportation of three family women.

“We will raise this issue in all national and international fora, human rights bodies, and we will prepare a case and send it to all democratic countries through their embassies,” Siidiqul Farooq, party spokesman said here on Wednesday.

“This is the rule of jungle. The rulers are afraid of popular leaders,” said Mr Siddiq said in a statement.

Nusrat Sharif, the wife of Sharif’s brother Shahbaz, and her daughters, were arrested on Tuesday and were deported to Saudi Arabia where another 17 members of the family are in exile.

A government official told AFP the three women were expelled for refusing to leave Pakistan within the timeframe of two months plus a 15-day extension granted to them for the two daughters’ weddings.

“This is only because they have guns, they have muscle power and we don’t. So in this 21st century, they are using muscle power to deport their own citizens, ladies at that,” Farooq said.

The Sharif family were banished to Saudi Arabia in December 2000, 14 months after President Pervez Musharraf toppled Nawaz from the premiership in an army coup.

Musharraf claims Sharif had agreed not to return to Pakistan until 2010, under a deal brokered by the Saudi royal family that got him out of jail on charges of treason and tax evasion.

The PML-N denies any such agreement was made and Musharraf has refused to produce a copy of the alleged agreement.—AFP