CAT/C/55/D/512/2012 miles before he was able to find a ride; he managed to arrive in Lahore and after obtaining a passport and borrowing money, he fled Pakistan. 5.8 The complainant submits that he arrived in the United States and filed a refugee application, which was denied. Because he had no money and did not know anyone there, he was forced to go into hiding. He still feared for his life because he had witnessed the power and influence wielded by the PML-N and extremist parties in Pakistan. For a long time, he felt scared when someone was walking behind him on the street and when he heard strange noises at night. During this time, “they” were constantly knocking at the doors of his relatives and asking for his address. The complainant asserts that during the 1990s, a ferocious power struggle between the PML-N and the PPP continued, and ordinary party workers continued to be tortured and killed. Many of his friends and colleagues were killed in such clashes, and although he missed his wife and children and often cried about it, he could not think about returning to Pakistan because it would mean certain death. After General Pervez Musharraf came to power, Punjab Province remained the stronghold of the PML-N mafia. The complainant further submits that sometime around 2003, through an acquaintance of his sister, the family members of his wife found out that he had moved to Canada, and located him and sent him messages for about a year, telling him to divorce his wife. The complainant’s family members tried to persuade them to leave the complainant alone, but S.A. remained hostile. When an argument broke out between the families, some of the complainant’s family members were killed. His other family members tried to have S.A. arrested after the killings but were unsuccessful. The hostility between the families continued to increase and in 2009 S.A. arranged the murder of more members of the complainant’s family in order to show what he was capable of doing. Around that time, the PML-N government in Punjab was again coming into conflict with the PPP, which tried to topple the PML-N. 5.9 The complainant argues that in early 2010, when the prosecution of those who murdered his family members was beginning to progress towards success, S.A. became worried and discussed the matter with his friend S.S., the second-highest-ranked official in the PML-N, and the brother of N.S. The friend advised S.A. that they should offer blood money to the complainant’s family members and ask them to forget everything. The complainant maintains that, accordingly, S.A. sent a group of people, led by the same PMLN candidate who had suffered a humiliating defeat in an election due to the complainant’s campaigning in 1990, to visit the complainant’s family members and that instead of offering blood money, the candidate began to ask angrily about the complainant’s whereabouts. As the negotiations did not progress, the group sent by S.A. left angrily. From then on, “they” continued to threaten his family members into accepting blood money and revealing his address. Many of the complainant’s family members are now reluctant to take his calls out of fear of what might happen to them, and he does not know if his family members would be willing to help him again. The PML-N members continue to ask his family about his whereabouts, and all of the persons who murdered his family members are now out on bail. 5.10 In a letter dated 12 May 2015, the Committee asked the complainant whether he had filed a second PRRA application and, if not, why he had not done so. In his comments dated 10 June 2015, the complainant states that he has not filed a second PRRA application for the following reasons: he is not authorized to submit any application directly to the State party while his communication is pending before the Committee; he is afraid that if he submits another PRRA application, he will be deported while it is pending, because the official who issued him a deportation order on 21 December 2011 told him that the second PRRA application would not stay his removal; the State party will not make an unbiased decision on his case because it continues to try to justify its previous decision without analysing the new evidence he has submitted; and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is more resourceful and is better informed about the 10