PESHAWAR, March 11: The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has slammed the United States for whisking away the innocent children of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

The provincial vice-president of the party, Rehmat Salam Khattak, said that on one hand the US was claiming to be the champion of human rights and democracy, on the other it was making mockery of human rights, according to a press release on Tuesday.

The PML leader criticized the government for allowing the US to arrest and shift its citizens without fulfilling legal formalities.

The rulers, he said, had set aside democratic values and norms to placate their US masters and were adamant to disgrace their own countrymen at the behest of the US.

He said victimization of a Faisalabad-based PML-N MPA, Rana Sanaullah, allegedly at the hands of the ISI had proved that there was no respect for people’s representatives.

He slammed the government for disallowing a visa to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to proceed to London from Saudi Arabia for medical treatment.

The government, he said, was pressuring PML-N information secretary Siddiqul Farooq to stifle his voice against its undemocratic tactics.

The PML-N leader pledged that his party would continue its struggle to uphold the cause of democracy.