ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) on Friday launched a country-wide signature campaign on a memorandum that calls upon the Bush administration to end the harassment of Pakistani expatriates under the new registration laws.

Through the memorandum, the US government has been requested to regularize those Pakistanis who have been living there and contributing to the development of society. It says that the deportation, as has been announced by the US government, will create a lot of financial and human problems for both the governments as well as people.

The decision to launch the campaign was taken by the PML-Q’s central high command on Jan 7. The party expected that more than a million faithful would have signed the memorandum after Friday prayers at mosques all over the country where the party office-bearers were deputed to supervise the process.