According to reports PML-N party workers have gone into hiding near Lahore and Islamabad in large numbers. Dawn.com's Musadiq Sanwal meets with one of them to share his views with Dawn readers.

Dressed in a white shalwar qameez and black waistcoat, PML-N Bahawalnagar's General Secretary Shafiq Khan looks like any member of a Provincial Assembly. I met him on Friday in a Lahore restaurant, where he arrived within 15 minutes of my calling him on his mobile phone. Speaking confidently, Khan claims that PML-N has already achieved 70 per cent of its targets and that all party workers are in hiding near Islamabad and Lahore. For obvious reasons, Khan does not elaborate on the innovative transport techniques that the workers are using. But he assures me that a hide-and-seek game is underway between the party and police and intelligence agencies. In his opinion, the party workers are proving quite successful in being elusive.