LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek federal council on Friday through a resolution gave full authority to its Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri to start a ‘Tehreek-e-Qassas’ to ensure that the martyrs of the Model Town incident were provided justice.
The resolution stated that the Model Town incident case was registered on the intervention of the army chief and now the army chief must ensure that justice was served in this case and culprits were sent to jail.
The resolution further stated that the PAT chief was authorised to decide the date and future line of action for the ‘Tehreek-e-Qassas’ after consultation with the opposition leaders in the July 31 consultative conference to be held at the PAT Secretariat.
Addressing a press conference after the federal council meeting, Dr Tahirul Qadri said that to end this reign of corruption, terrorism and lawlessness it was imperative to change the government.
He gave the army chief the name of ‘Mard-e-Ahen’ for conducting a successful operation against terrorists and extremists and for bringing peace to the country. He said PAT respects the point of view of the army chief that he wants to break the nexus of corruption and terrorism. He said the time had come to take concrete measures to eliminate these social evils from the society.
He said the time had come for the people of the country to decide whether they wanted to side with the corrupt or peace, tranquillity, justice and fair play in the country. He said a protest and only a protest was the solution to end corruption. And this announcement will be made after consulting leaders of the opposition parties in the July 31 meeting, he added.
The PAT federal council in its meeting voiced concern over the kidnapping of children in Lahore. It also demanded an end to unscheduled outages and inflation. The meeting protested the increase in loans being taken by the government from domestic and foreign agencies. The meeting also supported the demands of nurses, agriculturists, clerks and teachers.
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