PAT holds countrywide demonstrations to protest registration of FIR against ARY News

• August 27, 2013

Pakistan Awami Tehreek held countrywide demonstrations to protest against the Balochistan government’s dictatorial and anti-media attitude and to show solidarity with ARY News. The demonstrations, held across the country in front of press clubs of all major cities, were attended by PAT workers in large numbers. The participants of these demonstrations chanted slogans against the cruel act of registration of FIR against ARY News, one of the country’s leading and old broadcast channels. read more...

System designed to favour the powerful: Dr Hassan Mohi-ud-Din Qadri addresses Workers Convention

• August 25, 2013

Dr Hassan Mohi-ud-Din Qadri, President of MQI’s Supreme Council, has said that the myriad problems the country has been facing both internally as well as externally are due to leadership crisis. He said that the country needs a leadership that is visionary, nationalistic, and courageous and is deeply wedded to the ideology of the Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal. He said that unless those at the helm of affairs preferred national interests and had the courage to say no to the foreign dictations, things would not change for the better with the result that the country would continue to lurch from one crisis to the other. read more...

Change possible by staying out of present electoral system: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri talks to media

• August 21, 2013

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri, leader of PAT, has said that the friends of Taliban will never allow the punishments to be implemented against them. Who will proceed against those with whose help elections were won? He said that Pakistan needs a leadership that has the courage to say No to the dictates of the biggest powers in the interest of Pakistan, adding that only such a leadership can take courageous steps who does not fear anyone except Allah Almighty. He said that the corrupt can never take bold steps. read more...

Leadership be elected directly: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri talks in Express News’ programme ‘Takrar’

• August 18, 2013

PAT leader Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that the country’s leadership should be elected by the votes of the people directly. He said that the 18th Constitutional Amendment, under which ECP is constituted, was a classic case of rigging itself as it was enacted through the politics of deal-making. He said that the system currently in vogue in the country was corrupt that took care of interests of the powerful and corrupt elements to the detriment of the interests of the masses. He said that no change could be possible under this system. read more...

Faith leaders eulogize Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri’s services for interfaith dialogue

• August 9, 2013

Sikh leader Sardar Bashan Singh has said that Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is engaged in a struggle for promotion of interfaith dialogue, harmony, and respect, culture of tolerance and upholding of human rights. He said that the chief manifestation of this is the Peace for Humanity Conference held in Wembley Arena in London under the banner of MQI in which key faith leaders prayed as per their distinct religious teachings. He said that Dr Qadri is waging a real struggle for rights of followers of different faiths in the world in general and Pakistan in particular. read more...

Living nations seek to promote their thought globally: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri’s message on Independence Day

• August 14, 2013

In his message to the nation on the 67th Independence Day, Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, the leader of Pakistan of Pakistan Awami Tehreek, has said that the ideological nations do not live merely for their defence but for the worldwide promotion of its thought and ideology. He said that celebrating independence is a way of the living nation, adding that the day affords an opportunity to foster an attitude of self-accountability at individual and collective levels besides celebrating it in the befitting manner. read more...

90 per cent of religion is about rights of people: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri

• August 9, 2013

In his special message to the nation on the blessed occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that Pakistan is our home and the nation is like a family. Therefore, it is the duty and responsibility of every Pakistani to play his/her role to solidify home and make it beautiful in addition to contributing to the nation’s well-being and prosperity. read more...

‘Azan’ for change given, ‘Jamat’ yet to be led: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri

• August 3, 2013

Pakistan Awami Tehreek leader Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that his party gave ‘Azan’ by holding a historic public meeting at Minar-e-Pakistan in December 2012 and arranging the first ever Islamabad Long March in January 2013, adding that ‘Jamat’ is left to be led as yet. He said that the ‘moazzan’ takes a pause and keeps silent after saying ‘Azan’ till the ‘Jamat’ stands up to offer prayers. He said that we did not want to get embroiled in non-issues, further saying that the day when ten million ‘Namazis’ would be ready, we would stand up. He said that when the people would start offering prayer, the forces of falsehood would be swept away. read more...

MQI promoting peace, interfaith dialogue & agenda of human welfare: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri addresses Juma-tul-Wida

• August 2, 2013

Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that there will be a collective entity or a group of people in every century that will strive to uphold the faith and it will perform the duty of ‘ordaining good and stopping evil’ and that the love of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) will be its greatest defining feature. Orientation of this collective entity would be revolutionary, not structured along preaching lines. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) prescribed the same reward for those who will stand their ground against the mischief mongering people in this day and age as was the preserve of the Companions and ‘Tabaeen’. read more...

Qadri regrets gradual extinction of Islamic values

• August 2, 2013

It is regrettable that hooligans, rascals and law breakers have become heads of markets and traders and the Islamic values are becoming extinct by the day, said Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri on Thursday.

Addressing thousands of residents of Aitkaf City on the second day at Jamia al-Minhaj here, Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said: When the looters, thieves, corrupt and dishonest elements are installed in the high positions of power; when the trusts begin to be entrusted to the incompetent and morally bankrupt people; when the majority of those sitting in judicial offices happen to be dishonest and incompetent; when the religious decrees begin to be sold in return for paltry sums of money; when power begins to be transferred from one generation of rascals and plunders to another; when the masses start electing the rapists, drinkers and character-less people; and when all parties forge consensus on corruption, Allah’s Torment envelops such a society. read more...