Seeing the PPP in panic, the PML-N suspects that efforts are afoot to conceal a `wrong'. A meeting of PML-N elders is also being scheduled after the return of party chief Nawaz Sharif from London.

"Yes, we are planning to hold a consultative meeting of senior party leaders to take stock of the overall political situation, fake degrees and the security conference (that had been proposed by Nawaz Sharif two weeks ago)," said PML-N spokesman Ahsan Iqbal.

The consultation would be held after the party chief's return within four days, he added.

The fake degrees issue will provide the PML-N with a chance to repulse some of the pressure it has been facing from the PPP for the past couple of months as well as further eroding moral grounds its political rival is standing on.

"Common sense says there is something wrong because of which they (the PPP) have gone so much panicky," said Ahsan when asked if the PML-N had done any calculations on fake degrees of parliamentarians from Sindh, the power base of the PPP.

"The way they are exerting pressure on Higher Education Commission Chairman Javed Leghari by arresting his brother Farooq Leghari in different cases shows that the PPP government wants to influence and delay the process of verification of degrees to conceal the facts."

Meanwhile, the PPP-led federal government seems to be in no hurry about convening an all-party conference to discuss the attack on Data Darbar, as suggested ny Nawar Sharif.

Within hours of the attack, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani phoned the PML-N leader accepting his proposal, hinting at convening the moot in a week.

Nawaz also suggested Gilani to take some steps before holding the security conference.

These included getting feedback from intelligence and security forces, asking all stakeholders to do homework before coming to the moot, evolving a plan of action beforehand and not devising a policy that was not going to be implemented.