Tribune News: Model Town tragedy: New JIT rejected by PAT leadership

• November 18, 2014

LAHORE: The Punjab government, after dragging its feet over formation of a second Joint Investigation Team (JIT) based on the August 28 FIR lodged by Minhajul Quran (MuQ), has finally formed a new investigation team. But before this team starts work on Wednesday, the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has rejected it. The new five-member JIT will be headed by CCPO Quetta Abdul Razzaq Cheema, AIG Discipline at CPO SSP Shehzad Akbar, DSP CIA Khalid Abubakar and one official each from the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Intelligence Bureau (IB). read more...

The News: Tahirul Qadri wants Army Chief’s role in Model Town case

• November 18, 2014

LONDON: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader Dr Tahirul Qadri Tuesday said the Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif should play his role in the Model Town case. “We are not demanding anything that can be labeled as undemocratic; we want justice,” said Tahirul Qadri while talking to media representatives here. He said his party did not accept the inclusion of the Punjab policemen in the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) tasked to probe the Model Town tragedy. Earlier, the government had announced a five-member team to investigate the Model Town incident. read more...

ARY News: Dr. Qadri rejects reports on ‘break-up’ with Imran

• November 18, 2014

LONDON: Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri on Tuesday blasted a news report that allegedly described his ties with PTI chairman Imran Khan as now ‘severed and broken’, ARY News reported. There are no differences between me and Imran Khan, clarified Dr. Qadri while talking to media. He said: “We have not lost hopes. We just changed our strategy for fighting with this oppressive and tyrannical governance system in Pakistan.” read more...

Why rulers sitting on Judicial Commission report if their conscience is clear? Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri

• November 18, 2014

Addressing Workers Convention in London on Nov 18, PAT chief Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that we are the one who are not going to lose heart and accept defeat. He said that we have only improvised our strategy for change in the system. He said in a lighter tone that the comfort-seeking nation of Hazrat Musa (peace be upon him) would get Manna from heaven and was very happy with ‘Sirri payi, nihari and lassi’. With this mention, the participants of the Convention burst into laughter and chanted slogans of ‘Go Nawaz Go’. read more...

Pak Observer:Catch me if you can: Qadri tells Nawaz Govt

• November 18, 2014

London—Dr Tahirul Qadri, patron of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), said Monday that the Nawaz government can not dare to arrest him. Talking to media here, Qadri said that he is ready to be arrested 100 times but the government can not dare to do so. He said no power on earth could stop him from returning to Pakistan. The controversial cleric again dismissed the notion he had travelled abroad as a result of a deal with the government. “Is declaring me a proclaimed offender part of the deal?,” read more...

Dawn News: Sharifs afraid of probe: Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri

• November 18, 2014

LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri says the Sharif brothers are afraid of transparent investigation into the Model Town tragedy because they are directly responsible for the killing of PAT workers. He was talking to the media after he landed in London from the US, said a press release issued here on Monday. Qadri said he did not accept ‘fake’ joint investigation team appointed by the government involved in the Model Town incident as he wanted a probe team sans representatives of the Punjab government. read more...

ARY News: Workers protest against verdict declaring Qadri ‘absconder’

• November 18, 2014

KARACHI: Workers of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Monday staged protest rallies and demonstrations against the court verdict of declaring their party chief, Dr Tahirul Qadri as an absconder and upon the completion of five months to the Model Town tragedy, ARY News reported. According to details, PAT workers staged protest demonstrations in Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. In Karachi, workers of PAT’s women wing staged demonstration in front of the Karachi Press Club (KPC). read more...

Daily Times: Catch me if you can: Qadri dares govt

• November 18, 2014

LONDON: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri said on Monday that the Nawaz government cannot dare to arrest him. Talking to media in the British capital, Qadri said that he is ready to be arrested 100 times but the government cannot dare to do so. He said no power on earth could stop him from returning to Pakistan. The controversial cleric again dismissed the notion he had travelled abroad as a result of a deal with the government. read more...

Dunya News: Forming JIT a futile exercise: Tahirul Qadri

• November 18, 2014

LONDON: (Dunya News) – Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri has said that forming Joint Investigation Team will be a futile exercise. He said that PAT will not accept JIT formed for investigating the Model Town tragedy. Addressing a press conference on Monday in London along with British parliamentarian Lord Nazir, Dr. Qadri said that government may arrest him. He said that monopoly of few people over power was by no means democracy. read more...

Samaa News: Qadri renews call for CM Sharif’s resignation

• November 18, 2014

LONDON: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Allama Tahir-ul Qadri has reiterated his demand for the resignation of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in connection with the Model Town tragedy. Addressing a press conference here on Monday night, Qadri said that justice would not be served until Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif stepped down from his position. “Registration of cases and subsequent arrest warrant is a cowardly move by the government, but no power can stop me from returning to Pakistan,” he said. read more...