ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: PML-N MNA Maimoona Hashmi, daughter of jailed ARD president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, has criticized the government for not allowing medical check-up of her father.

In a statement here on Monday, she said her father had been in jail for the past 66 days, but the government had not provided him medical facilities despite the fact that the doctors had advised him physiotherapy four days a week.

Ms Hashmi said when her father was in the NAB custody for one year, the government had allowed him physiotherapy at the Civil Hospital, Lahore. She said the government would fail to get any benefit from the arrest of the ARD president, and the acting president of the PML-N and the alliance would continue to resist one man's rule in the country.

Mr Hashmi, she said, had been kept in solitary confinement in a security cell and that the government had been violating court orders. "Only a chit has been pasted outside the cell declaring it a cell with A-Class facilities," she added.

She said the "inhuman" treatment being meted out towards the head of the country's largest opposition alliance was a "slap on the face of democracy". She said on January 3, Mr Hashmi's lawyers were not allowed to see him and they had to wait outside Adiala Jail for three hours.

The MNA said the arrest of Javed Hashmi would send a wrong message to the leaders of Saarc states, who were visiting Islamabad in connection with the 12th Saarc summit.

She asked the human rights organizations to take notice of Mr Hashmi's arrest and highlight the case at international forums and media to expose the "real face of democracy in the country".