LAHORE: The PTPs parliamentary party in the Punjab Assembly says it is nothing but `hypocrisy` that the PML-N government, on one hand, is holding talks with the opposition party`s leadership, while on the other `fascism` is beingunleashed on its MPAs, leaders and workers, including women.

`The parliamentary party leadership demands the Punjab government should immediately stop its fascism and make the PTI-government talks meaningful, says Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Malik Ahmad Khan Bhachar, flanked by party MPAs, at a news conference here on Monday.

He alleged the police also registered cases against close relatives of those `martyred at D-Chowk` and threatened them with dire consequences.Mr Bhachar also demanded on behalf of the PTI parliamentary party that the party`s missing activists, allegedly picked from Islamabad on Nov 26, should be recovered.

He said PTI chairman Gohar Khan had submitted a list of 139 `missing` party workers.

The opposition leader lamented that the Punjab police were still raiding party MPAs, leaders and workers` homes. He alleged that bogus FIRs were registered against MPA Qazi Ahmad Akbar and police ransacked his house four times.

Reiterating that the PML-N`s `puppet government` had no authority to hold talks with the PTI, Mr Bhachar said the ruling party has been directed by the powers that be for a dialogue with his party.

He said the PML-N government was so powerless that the Punjab chief secretary and police IG, who were appointed by the caretaker government, were still hold-ing their charges in the `Form-47 government`.

He said despite talks with the government, the PTI would continue protesting and asserting its demand that the fake FIRs against the party leaders be withdrawn, missing persons be recovered and `political prisoners`, including party founder Imran Khan, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Senator Ejaz Chaudhry, Omar Sarfraz Cheema, Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed and others, released.

Referring to the postponement of Al-Qadir Trust case verdict till Jan 6, he said, everything in the country had become unsafe, but the court judgements.

He said the PTI members were sitting in the `bogus` Punjab Assembly because they wanted that the system should not be derailed.

`The ongoing dialogue is crucial in the sense that its outcome will determine whether Pakistan will stay on track or get derailed,` he said.