Qadri favours more provinces

For complete elimination of terrorism, improving the governance and to have control over the administration it is imperative that new provinces be formed on administrative basis in the country.

This was stated by the Pakistan Awami Tehreek Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri while talking to different delegations which called on him Wednesday. He said the masses were more interested in the Rs20 per kilogramme wheat flour (atta) rather than the Rs650 million per kilometer Motorways.

The PAT chief said the larger provinces were just a consumer market for the rulers and the puppet election commission and the one-man show were behind sorry state of affairs. He said our fight against the cruel rule would continue and it was only the PAT which had the blood of its martyrs in this struggle. He said the issues we pointed out during the Islamabad sit-in were the voice of all and sundry. He said what kind of democracy was this where no institution was ready to provide justice to people without the prior approval of the government and the Model Town incident was the biggest example, he said. He said that actually the mega projects were mega corruption projects and the people were not the rulers' priority. He said it was evident from the fact that the rulers continue to spend billions on Motorways, orange trains and metro buses while over 70 percent of the population of the country continue to live below the poverty line. He said children died in hospital due to the non-availability of ventilators and shortage of medicines. Due to massive unemployment the educated youths were forced to turn into criminals; there was a severe shortage of teachers and other basic facilities in educational institutions besides energy crisis.