LAHORE, May 3 Jamaat-i-Islami amir Syed Munawwar Hasan says the government is continuing former president General Pervez Musharraf's policy of American slavery which has threatened the very existence of the country and compromising its sovereignty.

Talking to Defence of Human Rights chairperson Amina Masood Janjua here on Sunday, he said that several missing Pakistanis were in the custody of United States (US) agencies which had set up their prisons within this country.

The JI chief said the country was practically being run by the US as the elected rulers were more US slaves than General Musharraf and all of their policies were being framed on Washington's dictate. He recalled that during Musharraf's era, hundreds of Pakistanis were handed over to the US.

Hasan said that abductions and unlawful detentions of citizens without any legal or judicial process and keeping them away from their families for years was the worst form of human rights violation which could not be thought of in any society. The JI, he said, had raised the issue in the parliament from the very first day.

A committee headed by party's central leader Liaquat Baloch had been launching a massive campaign for the recovery of missing Pakistanis, including Dr Afia Siddiqi.

The committee had staged around 200 demonstrations at different places so far. Mrs Janjua expressed her gratitude to the JI chief for his party's cooperation in the campaign launched for the recovery of the missing persons.

She said that the rulers and the parliament had been giving false assurances to relatives of the missing souls while practically no headway was being made in this direction.

She said that over 200 missing persons had been recovered on the intervention of the Supreme Court but later the Musharraf government ambushed the apex court.