IBN live: Pakistan: Tahir-ul-Qadri suspends talks with government

• September 13, 2014

Islamabad: One of the two anti-government protest leaders in Pakistan on Saturday said that he has suspended talks with the PML-N government following a crackdown on demonstrators demanding ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "We have suspended the talks as the government has begun arresting my workers in Islamabad and around the country," Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief and populist cleric Tahir-ul Qadri said, deepening the month-long political impasse in the country. read more...

Samaa News: Qadri fears major crackdown

• September 13, 2014

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri Saturday feared major crackdown against the protesters staging sit-in in the federal capital. “The government is taking its last breaths,” Qadri said while talking to media atop his container in Islamabad. He announced that dialogue with the government would not resume till the release of all arrested workers of the protesting parties. read more...

Pakistan Today: We have come to revive Constitution: Qadri

• September 11, 2014

Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri said Wednesday that the Constitution is no longer in force and his party has come to Islamabad to “revive” it. Terming the parliamentarians’ sentiments for people as “fake”, the PAT chief said, “We are being taught that a revolution can only take place through votes, Constitution and Parliament but the truth is that the Constitution is no more in force and the Parliament has not delivered to the people of the country.” read more...

The Nation: Qadri vows to bring reforms, new economic system

• September 11, 2014

Dr Qadri did not mention that under what capacity he was going to do it personally. He did not mention whether he was planning to help the government bring such reforms or he will force the government to do so. Qadri said, "We will bring such reforms that will ensure an end to the rule of few hundreds of families in the country." He further aimed to make the parliament true representative of the people by abolishing the evil of nepotism. read more...

People will bring bloody revolution, if out of control: Tahirul Qadri

• September 13, 2014

ISLAMABAD: (Dunya News) – Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri has said that people will bring bloody revolution if they got out of control. PAT chief invited the government for talks. He said that nobody came to his workers for asking if they were fine at the sit-in venue. Tahirul Qadri guaranteed ministers of their safety. “Nobody will attack the minister or chant slogans against them if they came here, I guarantee”, Dr. Qadri said. read more...

Daily Times: Qadri suspends talks with govt over arrests

• September 13, 2014

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri on Friday suspended talks with the government after hundreds of PAT workers were arrested in Islamabad and Punjab. “We have suspended all the talks with the government as it has arrested hundreds of our leaders and workers during an overnight crackdown,” Qadri said while addressing his supporters on Constitution Avenue. read more...

Quaid-e-Azam’s ideals put on the backburner: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri

• September 11, 2014

PAT chief Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that we want such a system of politics and elections in the country in which political parties do not have sole monopoly on the fate of masses and electorate are free to express their opinion. He said that as long as people will not be independent economically with an ability to make free choices, their right of vote will remain compromised. Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri made these remarks while addressing the participants of revolution march in front of Parliament House on September 11. read more...

PAT suspends talks with govt

• September 12, 2014

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has suspended its talks with the government, which were continued for past several days, ARY News reported. According to details, PAT, along with other allied parties, suspended talks as a sign of protest, over the arrests of workers being made by the government. read more...

Workers’ arrests: Dr Qadri announces to suspend talks with govt

• September 12, 2014

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), Dr Tahirul Qadri said on Friday, “We have suspended all the negotiations with the government as it has arrested hundreds of our workers and leaders, during an overnight crackdown”, ARY News reported. Addressing the participants at the PAT sit-in, he said the police, during the recent crackdown, not only arrested the workers but looted valuables from their houses that worth millions. read more...

Pakistan anti-government protesters set up campsite school

• September 12, 2014

For weeks now, large crowds of people have been camped out in the government district of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, protesting against what they say is the corruption of the current government. They are supporters of the cleric Tahir ul-Qadri who, along with the cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan, has been calling for the present prime minister Nawaz Sharif to resign. read more...