Hundreds of people participated in a rally held under the banner of Pakistan Awami Tehreek Lahore today. The rally was organized to protest against the government’s practice of hiking gas and power prices as well as worst energy shortages in the country. It started from Garhi Shahu and concluded at Lahore Press Club. The demonstration was led by Irshad Ahmad Tahir and PAT Lahore President Afzal Gujjar. read more...
The Christian community around the world is celebrating the festive and auspicious occasion of Christmas today. I, on my own behalf and on behalf of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, take this opportunity to felicitate the entire community on this happy occasion. read more...
The 25th of December is the birthday of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan and a great statesman of his times. I congratulate the entire Pakistani nation and the members of the Pakistani community living abroad on this festive occasion. The establishment of Pakistan owes its existence to the dedicated and untiring struggle of the Quaid-e-Azam he waged for the Muslims of the sub-continent. Pitted against the combined opposition of the ruling British and the Indian National Congress, the great Quaid risked his personal comfort nay his health in his struggle to attain Pakistan on the basis of universal right to self-determination. read more...
Shaykh-ul-Islam said that he was urging people to rise against electoral system out of his national and religious duty and not at the behest of someone else. He said that the current system had snatched people’s livelihood, their sovereignty, their integrity and paralysed them. He categorically stated that real change was not possible through current electoral system. He said that the system was geared towards protecting the interests of the ruling elite with nothing to offer to the poor masses. He said that the system had kept 180 million people shackled. read more...
Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Chairman of Pakistan Awami Tehreek, has announced to launch countrywide public campaign to bring about change in the electoral system. Different public gatherings and rallies would be held in different parts of the country for protection of democracy, state and the country. read more...
The Centre for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) at George Mason University, Washington D.C. along with Institute for Middle East Studies at the Marmara University, Istanbul organized and hosted the international 3-day conference in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference started on 30 November 2011 and concluded on 2 December 2011. read more...
Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said that the Parliament was and has been a rubber stamp, unable to play any role in the national affairs. He said that the country was rendered into a colony of the foreign powers by the vested interests. Politics on certain issues is played because the present system supports it, he added. read more...
IT takes a supremely brave individual to look into the eyes of Muslim extremists and tell them they are un-Islamic and unbelievers. Dr Qadri is one man who can reach across that most difficult of divides - the one that exists between the Muslims and modern Western society. He is a slight, immaculately-groomed individual and at first he spoke softly so the audience was straining to hear his words as he explained that true Islam does not accept brutality, extremism, militancy, killing and massacre. There were murmurs of approval as he described Australia as "the best society, the best community on this planet, practising multifaith, multiculturalism and diversity in its true sense and reality". read more...
The real enemy of the masses is the exploitative and corrupt electoral system and it is the responsibility of the nation to strive to change it for their larger public good. Hundreds of thousands of people would attend the public rally in Laiqat Bagh in Rawalpindi on the 18th of December. This rally would introduce new trends in national politics. The rally would expose the real faces of the enemies of the people who are major hurdle in their progress and prosperity. read more...
Addressing a joint rally of Pakistan Awami Tehreek and Minhaj-ul-Quran International (Lahore chapters) against the unprovoked NATO attack on Pakistani checkpost in Mohmand Agency, Irshad Ahmad Tahir, Amir of MQI Lahore, said that the entire nation was unanimous in their condemnation of the aggression by the NATO forces. read more...
