LAHORE, Feb 15: The ARD set up its protest camp at Thokar Niazbeg on Sundy warning the rulers that they would soon have to pay for keeping former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Mian Nawaz Sharif out of the country.

ARD leaders said in their speeches that the struggle would continue till it achieved its targets. Jehangir Badr, Naheed Khan, Dr Safdar Abbasi, Naveed Chaudhry, Abdul Qadir Shaheen, Mian Misbahur Rehman, Altaf Qureshi, Khwaja Saad Rafiq, Saifullah Saif, Imtiaz Safdar Waraich were among prominent among the participants.

The PPP secretary-general said it would not be possible for anyone to contain the opposition movement. Other leaders said that the rulers would have to pack up.

They criticized the government for its failure to control prices, the law and order situation or solve problems of the common man. They demanded that the former prime ministers should be brought back home honourably and then a national government should be set up.