Lahore: The death toll in the violent clashes between supporters of an influential Canada-based Pakistani cleric and Lahore police today rose to nine as one more victim of the riot succumbed to his injuries. Jinnah Hospital Medical Superintendent Abdul Rauf confirmed the death of a 24-year-old man who was wounded when police and Tahirul Qadri's supporters clashed over removing barricades near the cleric's residence and office. read more...
Pakistan’s politicians had a very busy day yesterday, staging walk-outs, demanding resignations, calling for days of mourning and playing politics over the killing of eight people during violent clashes between police and workers of Dr.Tahirul Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT). read more...
Pakistani police said Thursday they had filed terrorism charges against followers of a prominent preacher and anti-government critic, including his son, following clashes with the group in the eastern city of Lahore. Eight people were killed when Pakistani riot police armed with assault rifles clashed with supporters of cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, who lives in Canada but is due to come to Pakistan by the end of the month. read more...
RAWALPINDI: Despite administrative and police threats, the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and Tehreek Minhajul Quran will establish 10 camps in various areas of the garrison city on Thursday to welcome Dr Tahirul Qadri at Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA). read more...
Now, as they desperately look for a scapegoat to come out of the first popularity dip that comes unfortunately on the heels of PML-N’s “one year of good governance” celebrations, critics apart, their own sympathisers, urban voters and supporters remain utterly confused about the things to come. These people have been seeking basic reforms in policing, education and health sectors apart from the mega developmental works “Khadame-e-Aala” takes pride in. read more...
LAHORE: Awami Muslim League’s (AML) Sheikh Rashid says that, for him, welcoming Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri upon his most critical homecoming on June 23 takes priority over everything else, Samaa reported. “AML has not nixed the train march, but rather shelved it until the right time for we have to first prove our solidarity with Pakistan Awami Tehreek on Dr Qadri’s arrival”, Rashid told Samaa. read more...
Model Town Lahore Massacre: FIR lodged against 21 including PM Nawaz Sharif, CM Shahbaz Sharif, Rana Sana ullah, Ch Nisar, Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Khawaja Asif, Pervez Rashid, Abid Sher Ali & other. Application for registration of the case. read more...
Director Administration Minhajul Quran Jawad Hamid filed an application with the Faisal Town Police station on Thursday for registration of murder cases against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Hamza Shahbaz and 21 others over Lahore mayhem. Earlier, PAT Chief Allama Tahirul Qadri had expressed no confidence in the provincial government and declined to lodge an FIR with police, which he claimed were killers of his party workers. PML (Q) leaders Senator Kamil Ali Agha, former Law Minister Dr Khalid Ranjha, Chairman Sunni Ittehad Council Sahibzada Hamid Raza accompanied by Jawad Hamid went to the police station to file the application. Federal Ministers Kh. Asif, Chaudhry Nisar, Pervaiz Rashid, Khwaja Saad Rafique, Abid Sher Ali, Rana Sanaullah, ex CCPO Lahore Shafiq Gujjar, DIG operations Rana Abdul Jabbar, SSP Tariq Aziz are also among those nominated in the application. read more...
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has strongly condemned police attack on Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri’s residence in Model Town on Tuesday, in which eight people were killed and at least 90 injured. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the Commission said, “HRCP condemns in the strongest words possible the unfortunate events on Tuesday in which eight people, including two women, were killed at Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri’s residence when the administration reportedly tried to remove some barriers from roads around the place”. read more...
