ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: Maimoona Hashmi, MNA and the daughter of jailed ARD president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, has criticized the attitude of the officials of the Adiala Jail and accused them of creating hurdles in her meetings with the father.

Talking to Dawn here on Friday after meeting her father, Ms Hashmi said whenever she and other relatives went to meet Mr Hashmi, the jail officials kept them waiting for hours.

She further said despite court orders, Mr Hashmi had not been provided A-Class facilities in the jail. The PML-N MNA said the family arranged a TV set, a small refrigerator and other necessary items for Mr Hashmi but all these were lying unused outside the cell, where his father had been kept in solitary confinement. Ms Hashmi said she had also moved the court for not providing A-Class facilities to her father but the case was still pending.

She said Mr Hashmi was in high spirit and firmed on his stand that there was no role of the military in the politics. "My father is determined to carry on the struggle for the restoration of a genuine democracy and supremacy of parliament in the country," she said.

She said Mr Hashmi had told her that the government had arrested him under the law, which was used against Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar and Bhagat Singh some 80 years ago. She said Mr Hashmi was not happy over the passage of the 17th Amendment Bill in parliament and believed that the politicians had missed a chance to oust the military from the politics on permanent basis.