At least seven people have died in clashes between followers of a religious scholar and police in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, hospital officials have said. The clashes on Tuesday involved supporters of Canadian-Pakistani Tahir-ul-Qadri who held a major anti-corruption march last year prior to the May 2013 national elections that saw the country's first democratic handover of power. read more...
The Prime Minister, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, some of the cabinet ministers, IG Punjab, DIG operations, CCPO and thousands of police officials were involved in conceiving, planning and perpetrating worst ever terrorism against innocent, unarmed workers including women. Electronic media is our commission, evidence and investigation. The masses and civil society have been scared away from taking part in public reception on June 23. Time to put an end to political terrorism, savagery, and oppression has come. We would not let the country become a place submerged in bloodbath. A few officers were made OSD and assigned the responsibility of tampering with the medical record of the martyrs and the injured. read more...
Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has rejected judicial commission formed by the government to probe into Model Town tragedy. Qadri also refused to take compensation money, announced by the provincial government for deceased families, saying we don’t accept the judicial commission and families of our martyrs don’t need government compensation. read more...
Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri on Wednesday said that the whole nation knows who fired the bullets, adding that PAT workers were ‘mass-murdered.’ He demanded that the ‘so called democratic government’ must stop targeting the opposition with state violence, Dunya News reported. While addressing party workers through video link, Qadri thanked the political leaders who inquired about the health of injured PAT workers. He said that murderers flee while those who are murdered are presented as the murderers. read more...
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan extended support to Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) while speaking to media, Express News reported on Wednesday. Khan said PTI will stand by Dr Tahirul Qadri’s party till they get justice for the eleven killed and several injured as clashes erupted between Qadri’s supporters and police. Khan said extreme measures were taken to scare people from coming out on the roads. read more...
Lahore – Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri has strongly condemned the killing of his party’s activists in clashes with police in Lahore, saying government’s days have been numbered and revolution is on the verge. Addressing party workers via video link, the cleric termed police crackdown on Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI) secretariat as ‘state terrorism’, saying the said that the FIR of the killing of would be registered against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. read more...
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has rejected judicial commission formed by the government to probe the killing of eight people outside Minhajul Quran Secretariat on Monday. He said that: “We don’t accept the judicial commission and families of our martyrs don’t need government compensation”. Qadri said that his party would look after families of the deceased workers and will provide education, food and accommodation. read more...
TORONTO/LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek Chairman Tahirul Qadri on Tuesday said the first information report of the incident will be lodged against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and the Punjab cabinet, as his son expressed mistrust over the judicial commission announced by the government. read more...
Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) head Dr. Tahir ul Qadri on Wednesday rejected judicial commission set up by the Punjab government to open a probe into deaths of eight people in Lahore yesterday. “I appeal to judge to distance himself from the commission. Those who carried out murders lodged an FIR themselves,” he said while addressing a press conference via video link from Canada. read more...
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan again called for the resignation of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Law Minister Rana Sanaullah for yesterday’s brutal police action in Lahore, which killed at least 11 people with another 90 injured. “Why hasn’t Shahbaz Sharif resigned yet? Where was he when unarmed civilians were being sprayed with bullets,” he asked. read more...
