ISLAMABAD, April 20: The suspended member of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), MNA Khawaja Saad Rafiq, has said he has accepted the decision of party chief Nawaz Sharif to suspend him for three months in the larger interest of the party which is in the middle of a struggle for restoration of democracy.

Talking to reporters in the cafeteria of Parliament House on Wednesday, he said the party was fighting for the case of democracy with full force and at this stage each and every decision of Mr Sharif was acceptable to him.

Mr Rafiq, whose basic membership was suspended for violating party discipline by issuing statements against the senior leaders, categorically refuted the reports that he was about to join the ruling PML. He said the ruling PML was a party of slaves and he could not even think of joining it. He said no person with a clear conscience could join the PML which was actually Pervez Musharraf League.

When asked to comment on Asif Zardari’s statement that talks could be held with the real powers, Mr Rafiq said whoever engaged himself in talks with the establishment would only waste time.

He criticized Gen Pervez Musharraf for declaring the freedom movement of Muslims in Philippines as terrorism.