LONDON: Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri said on Wednesday that his struggle and battle was against the status quo in Pakistan, ARY News reported. Talking to media in London before leaving for Pakistan, he reiterated that Punjab government was responsible for the Model Town incident and it should be held accountable. read more...
LONDON: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri on Wednesday rejected the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed by the Punjab government to investigate Model Town incident, saying that JIT comprising ‘killers’ was not acceptable to them. Talking to media men at London Airport before leaving for Pakistan, Qadri said that they could not such a JIT which has members involved in the killing of PAT workers in Model Town. read more...
After much impediments and hullabaloos over formation of a second Joint Investigation Team (JIT) based on the FIR lodged by Minhajul Quran (MuQ) on August 28, the Punjab government has finally formed a new investigation team. However, before this team starts work on Wednesday, the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has rejected it. The new five-member JIT will be headed by Quetta CCPO Abdul Razzaq Cheema, AIG Discipline at CPO SSP Shehzad Akbar, CIA DSP Khalid Abubakar and one official each from the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB). read more...
LAHORE: The Punjab government, after dragging its feet over formation of a second Joint Investigation Team (JIT) based on the August 28 FIR lodged by Minhajul Quran (MuQ), has finally formed a new investigation team. But before this team starts work on Wednesday, the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has rejected it. The new five-member JIT will be headed by CCPO Quetta Abdul Razzaq Cheema, AIG Discipline at CPO SSP Shehzad Akbar, DSP CIA Khalid Abubakar and one official each from the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Intelligence Bureau (IB). read more...
LONDON: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader Dr Tahirul Qadri Tuesday said the Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif should play his role in the Model Town case. “We are not demanding anything that can be labeled as undemocratic; we want justice,” said Tahirul Qadri while talking to media representatives here. He said his party did not accept the inclusion of the Punjab policemen in the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) tasked to probe the Model Town tragedy. Earlier, the government had announced a five-member team to investigate the Model Town incident. read more...
LONDON: Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri on Tuesday blasted a news report that allegedly described his ties with PTI chairman Imran Khan as now ‘severed and broken’, ARY News reported. There are no differences between me and Imran Khan, clarified Dr. Qadri while talking to media. He said: “We have not lost hopes. We just changed our strategy for fighting with this oppressive and tyrannical governance system in Pakistan.” read more...
Addressing Workers Convention in London on Nov 18, PAT chief Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that we are the one who are not going to lose heart and accept defeat. He said that we have only improvised our strategy for change in the system. He said in a lighter tone that the comfort-seeking nation of Hazrat Musa (peace be upon him) would get Manna from heaven and was very happy with ‘Sirri payi, nihari and lassi’. With this mention, the participants of the Convention burst into laughter and chanted slogans of ‘Go Nawaz Go’. read more...
London—Dr Tahirul Qadri, patron of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), said Monday that the Nawaz government can not dare to arrest him. Talking to media here, Qadri said that he is ready to be arrested 100 times but the government can not dare to do so. He said no power on earth could stop him from returning to Pakistan. The controversial cleric again dismissed the notion he had travelled abroad as a result of a deal with the government. “Is declaring me a proclaimed offender part of the deal?,” read more...
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri says the Sharif brothers are afraid of transparent investigation into the Model Town tragedy because they are directly responsible for the killing of PAT workers. He was talking to the media after he landed in London from the US, said a press release issued here on Monday. Qadri said he did not accept ‘fake’ joint investigation team appointed by the government involved in the Model Town incident as he wanted a probe team sans representatives of the Punjab government. read more...
KARACHI: Workers of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Monday staged protest rallies and demonstrations against the court verdict of declaring their party chief, Dr Tahirul Qadri as an absconder and upon the completion of five months to the Model Town tragedy, ARY News reported. According to details, PAT workers staged protest demonstrations in Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. In Karachi, workers of PAT’s women wing staged demonstration in front of the Karachi Press Club (KPC). read more...
