LAHORE, Nov 13: PML-N acting president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, who was released from the Camp Jail on Wednesday after being allowed bail by a court a couple of days ago, has alleged that intelligence agencies are pressuring his party’s legislators-elect to change their loyalties.

Talking to reporters here, he said the party had recorded conversation between the agencies and the PML-N leaders which would substantiate his assertion.

Replying to a question about his party’s cooperation to the MMA which was now holding talks with the PML-Q, Mr.Hashmi said the cooperation had been offered for the restoration of the ‘73 Constitution.

“We have not rescinded our decision to extend cooperation to the MMA. But the condition for cooperation remains unchanged —- the restoration of the 1973 Constitution”.

He said his party was adhering to the point of view which it had adopted on the day the PML-N government was toppled. It was for this stand that Mian Nawaz Sharif accepted the exile and thus his party could not make the slightest deviation from it, he asserted.

“Who is he”, asked the PML(N) leader when a reporter asked him to comment on Sheikh Rashid’s advice that legislators-elect of Mian Nawaz Sharif’s party should vote for Mr.Zafarullah Jamali as he was a Muslim Leaguer. “Anyone who negated his past would be negated by the future”, Mr.Hashmi said rather bitterly.

He reiterated that Gen Musharraf would need indemnity for all his acts or anybody could move the Supreme Court to seek action against him under Article 6 of the Constitution. At the same time, he said, if the elected assembly indemnified his acts, it would be signing its death warrants.

In reply to a question, he said his party would not recognize Gen Pervez Musharraf as legitimate president whether he was in uniform or without it.

He told a questioner that for him the situation remained unchanged even after being out of the Camp Jail. He said the only difference he was feeling was that then he was in a smaller jail with a few thousand other inmates, but now he was in the company of 140 million “prisoners”.

He said he would feel free the day the Constitution was restored and dictatorship came to an end.

A number of party leaders received him outside the jail. They included Sirdar Zulfikar Ali Khan Khosa, Khwaja Saad Rafiq, Akram Zaki, Pervaiz Malik, Inamullah Khan Niazi, Zaeem Qadri and others. They showered flower petals on their leader and raised slogans in his favour.