No information on the student wing of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) at Lahore College in Peshawar, the names of the members of its executive committee, or whether these individuals were targeted by the government could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

Only one reference to a youth member of the PML in Peshawar was found in a 27 May 1999 Dawn article:

A local leader of PML Youth wing, Malik Qasim Jan, died at a local hospital here [in Peshawar] on Thursday on kidney failure as a result of alleged police highhandedness during interrogation last week.

On the intervention of chief minister Sadar Mehtab Abbasi's special assistant on youth affairs, Inamullah Khan, who is also the provincial president of [the] PML youth wing, an FIR was lodged against Deputy Superintendent Police, Cantonment, Gul Afzal Afridi, under section 302.

For more information on the Muslim Student Federation (MSF) (the student wing of the PML) and the treatment of its members from 1995 to 2000, please refer to PAK34758.E of 17 July 2000. For information about the General Secretary of the PML's youth wing, please refer to PAK39662.E of 25 July 2002.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Reference

Dawn [Karachi, in English]. 27 May 1999. "Peshawar: PML Youth Wing Leader Dies of Alleged Torture." (NEXIS)

Additional Sources Consulted

IRB Databases

LEXIS/NEXIS

Internet sites, including:

Amnesty International (AI)

BBC

CNN

Daily Times (2002 archives only)

Dawn

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

The Nation (2002 archives only)

United Nations: "Country Profiles on the Situation of Youth in Pakistan"

World News Connection (WNC)

Search engines, including:

Google

Yahoo Asia