LAHORE, Jan 19: The PML-N would advise the ARD to requisition a session of the National Assembly to discuss the arrest of various scientists, a party leader said on Monday.

MNA Khwaja Saad Rafiq said in a press statement that the heads of the ARD parties would take up the matter at a meeting in Dera Ismail Khan on Jan 22.

Calling for the release of all arrested scientists, the PML-N leader said in case the government did not yield, his party would take the matter to court as well as the electorate.