Corrupt rulers to be kicked out soon: Qadri

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri on Sunday said corrupt rulers would soon be kicked out of the country as a silent revolution was nearing. He claimed that there was neither democracy nor any system in the country.

Addressing a large gathering at the Liaquat Bagh, Qadri said there was nothing like democracy and an organised system in the country. “No parliament exists in this country. The present parliament came into existence through violating Article 63 and 62,” he alleged.

Qadri said hundreds of thousands of people were attending the rally. “I wanted to show people’s power by staging today’s rally.”“The time has come to rebuild Pakistan as some families are occupying the country,” Qadri added.

The PAT leader announced that he would soon return to Pakistan and give a call for the final phase of his peaceful revolution to transfer power back to people.He rejected criticism about leading the campaign from Canada. “It is the right of people to reject or accept my call from Canada. If they respond to my call, nobody else has the right to object,” he said.

“There is no hope from the parliament which was formed through rigged elections,” he said, adding that under the Constitution of Pakistan, elimination of the present government system had become mandatory.

About 5000 to 6000 party workers participated in the rally. It started from Chandni Chowk and culminated at Committee Chowk. PML-Q Senior Vice President Bashrat Raja, J Salik, Ahmed Raza Kasuri, Baba Haider Zaman of Hazara Tehreek and others also participated in the rally.Qadri said drastic changes in the present system would be introduced with setting up of 30 new provinces, including an administrative unit for Hazara.He said under the new structural setup of the country, homeless people would be provided houses besides job opportunities for unemployed.

Asim Hussain adds from Lahore: The rally, which was meant to judge ‘the preparedness of 20 million ‘Namazis’ for Qadri’s much-awaited prayer call’, proved to be an unimpressive show despite mobilising huge resources for bringing people from adjoining districts and towns to the provincial metropolis.

What should have been most perturbing for the organisers was the disinterest shown by Lahorites as an estimated 70 per cent participants were from outside the city with their numbers estimated around 5,000 to 6,000.

The PML-Q joined the rally led by some former and sitting women MPAs, including Amna Ulfat, Majida Zaidi, Samina Khawar Hayat, Kanwal Naseem and others.The rally which started from Nasir Bagh amidst tight security measures proved to be a slow and sluggish affair as it began its march 90 minutes behind the schedule.

Apparently, the organisers kept waiting for the participants since only a few hundred workers could reach the venue till 3 pm, the scheduled time. Majority of those who reached Nasir Bagh were women and children, and the bulk of them were the students of the TMQ-run educational institutions and colleges who had come along with their family members.

To engage the participants in the absence of PAT and TMQ central leaders, the organisers kept playing party songs on loudspeakers. Many boys and girls kept dancing to the tunes.The bigger chunk of the participants had come from nearby districts and towns like Sheikhupura, Sialkot, Kasur, Okara, Muridke, Pattoki and Nankana. A number of rural women in the rally looked overtly indifferent as they kept sitting on pavements, holding and paying attention to their children. Same was the case with many men and youth coming from other areas as they looked more interested in lying or sitting on footpaths then joining the rally to raise slogans. Before the rally began, the organisers spent quite a time requesting them to get up and join the rally.

The rally led by TMQ Lahore Ameer Irshad Tahir, Lahore Nazim Ghulam Farid and PAT President Chaudhry Afzal Gujjar began marching at a slow pace and not as part of single rally, but in shape of small clusters of workers walking as separate groups. PAT Secretary Khurram Nawaz Gandapur joined the rally later, when it had almost reached Faisal Chowk. Qadri’s son Hasan Mohiuddin Qadri, who was scheduled to lead the rally, reached Faisal Chowk after 7pm. They participants kept shouting slogans against the ruling PML-N leadership and holding banners and placards demanding revoking of existing electoral laws and implementation of Article 38 of the Constitution.

Strangely, the central and local leadership refrained from addressing the participants after the rally had reached Faisal Chowk, and suspended the proceedings for over an hour (from 5.45pm to 7 pm) apparently waiting for Qadri’s signal from Canada.

However, several hundreds of participants coming especially from Kot Abdul Malik, Muridke, Shahdara and Gujranwala also reached the venue, enlarging the size of the rally. After much delay, the PAT leadership began addressing the rally after 7.30 pm and the speech of Gandapur was cut short after a few minutes when Qadri began his televised address from Canada.

Our correspondent adds from Bahawalpur: The PAT workers took out rallies amid strict security measures.At Chowk Fawara, they listened to Qadri through a video link. The rally started from Chowk Fawara to Rafique Shah Chowk. In Rahim Yar Khan, another rally started from Jinnah Hall to Railway Chowk amid security measures.

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