LAHORE: Seething cauldron of clashing temperatures between police and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) seems to have slightly calmed down on Saturday as compared to the last two days after Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mushtaq Sukhera ordered removal of barricades. However, police continue to have security beefed up in Model Town and its surrounding areas to maintain the law and order. read more...
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Saturday directed a bailiff to produce nearly 11,000 activists of Pakistan Awami Tehreek in the court after recovering them from police detention. The order was passed on a petition filed by PAT general secretary Mian Amjad who said nearly 11,000 PAT activists were being held at various police stations. read more...
(Pak Destiny) The PML-N government has been advised not to try to arrest Dr Tahirul Qadri as it may cause dozens of casualties. Highly placed sources told Pak Destiny that the Punjab government had planned to arrest Qadri yesterday night but on the reports of intelligence agencies the government changed its mind last minute. read more...
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...
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