KARACHI: Founder leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain has called Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Nazim-e-Ala Dr Raheeq Abbasi and expressed his deep concern over the siege of Dr Tahirul Qadri’s home and PAT Secretariat. MQM Chief showed his concern over media reports the PAT chief’s house was besieged and no one, including media persons was not allowed to enter into the house. read more...
Canada-based Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, who has vowed to lead a “revolution” against the Nawaz Sharif government, was on Thursday virtually placed under house arrest by Lahore police to stop him from leading any anti-government protest. Police have blocked all roads leading to his Model Town residence with containers and are not even allowing opposition leaders’ vehicles near his house. read more...
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) will observe Yaum-e-Shuhada today to commemorate the martyrs of Model Town Tragedy and Pakistan Army’s Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan Agency. The main ceremony would be organized in front of Minhaj-ul-Quran International Secretariat. Several parties including announced Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Q will attend the ceremony, where the holy Quran and durood shareef will be recited for the eternal peace of the martyrs. read more...
SLAMABAD, Pakistan — Violent clashes between the police and opponents of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif swept across Pakistan’s Punjab Province on Saturday, leaving at least two people dead and more than 100 injured as Mr. Sharif’s 14-month-old government sought to forestall a series of planned street protests aimed at ousting it. For the second consecutive day, the Pakistani police confronted supporters of Muhammad Tahir-ul Qadri, a firebrand preacher who has vowed to topple Mr. Sharif through a “peaceful revolution.” read more...
“Party activists should start observing Youm-e-Shuhada in the very place where they are stopped”, says Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri. Eight more activists including two women have been killed in recent clashes with police, bringing the overall death toll of PAT activists to 22, said Qadri. The flamboyant cleric while invoking God’s curse on the Federal and Punjab governments said that on two different occasions 300 and 150 buses carrying his followers were stopped by polices. read more...
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri on Saturday announced that his party and supporters would be observing Youm-i-Shuhada on August 10 and would be holding sit-ins across the country. Speaking to media representatives in Lahore, Qadri said the rulers were willing to harm the country to any degree in order to safeguard their own government. read more...
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has said that Martyrs’ Day will definitely be observed on August 10 and that PAT workers must not surrender. “This is the path of revolution, and each step you take will go down in history,” he said while addressing a press conference late on Friday night. Dr Qadri, however, gave personal assurance that there would be no violence and aggression, if the Punjab government removed all barricades it has placed to stop the PAT workers from reaching Lahore. read more...
LAHORE/ MULTAN, Pakistan: Violence erupted in several places in Pakistan on Saturday between police and supporters of an anti-government cleric and at least four people were killed and scores injured, police and witnesses said. The violence, which started on Friday, is exacerbating tension ahead of a big protest rally by the activist cleric, Tahir ul-Qadri, in the city of Lahore on Sunday. read more...
LAHORE: Chief of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), Dr Tahir ul Qadri has said that at least one PAT worker was killed, while 6 were injured due to police torture in Bhakkar, ARY News reported. Addressing a press conference here, Dr Tahir ul Qadri said a caravan of 70 buses was ready to move to Lahore for the proceedings of the Day of Martyrs on August 10, Punjab Police intercepted it and forced the PAT workers to return to their homes and not to lead forth. read more...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leaders Raheeq Abbasi and Khurram Gandpur said Friday that government had made Gaza-like situation in Lahore in just three days of its oppression, ARY News reported. Talking to ARY News, the PAT leaders said government was violating the privacy of individuals by ordering crackdown on PAT workers and supporters to halt them join the protest. read more...
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