Islamabad: Charging Pervez Musharraf with "hijacking" a plane carrying Opposition leaders to prevent them from attending the joint session of Parliament, a top Pakistani opposition leader said that police declined to register her complaint against the President in this regard.

The fire-brand Vice-President of the Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz Tehmina Daulatana, who was in the plane from Lahore to Islamabad which was diverted to Peshawar yesterday (Jan 17, 2004), alleged that the Government on the orders of Musharraf diverted the flight to stop her from attending the session.

"The Government action amounted to hijacking the plane," she said, adding that when she tried to lodge a written complaint at the airport police station in Islamabad against Musharraf, the station house officer refused to accept it, saying it did not fall in his area of jurisdiction.

He advised to file the application through the Civil Aviation Authority, Airport Security Force or concerned authorities of the Pakistan International Airlines, she said.

Opposition leaders alleged that two planes, one from Karachi and another from Lahore were diverted yesterday as a result of which a number of ruling and opposition Parliamentarians could not attend the National Assembly when Musharraf was delivering his maiden address.

Daulatana refuted the police official's argument by alleging that Musharraf himself had lodged a FIR (First Information Report) against former Premier Nawaz Sharif in Karachi airport for preventing his plane from Colombo to land in Karachi in 1999, during the military coup.