ISLAMABAD, April 5: PML-N Secretary-General Iqbal Zafar Jhagra has expressed resentment over unavailability of entitled facilities to the party’s acting president, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, at Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore. The PML-N leader, in a press release issued here on Tuesday, said Javed Hashmi was the president of the biggest alliance of opposition parties — Alliance for Restoration of Democracy — and an elected member of the National Assembly. As a parliamentarian, Mr Hashmi is entitled to A-Class facilities, he added.

He said: “The unconstitutional government of Gen Pervez Musharraf was usurping basic fundamental rights of the opposition leader for voicing his rights.”

Mr Jhagra said pushing the politicians against the wall was not in the national interest. He said Gen Musharraf was following the policy of dividing the nation so that he might prolong his ‘unconstitutional’ rule.