Model Town report: Qadri calls APC on 28th to decide future strategy

LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has stepped up his contacts with opposition leaders to increase pressure on the government, and announced hosting an all parties conference (APC) on Dec 28 to chalk out a joint strategy against the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N. “Shahbaz Sharif’s chances of becoming prime minister are a far cry, and I can visualise him hanged in the Model Town killings case,” he said while addressing a press conference along with Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid who called on him at party secretariat on Thursday evening. Dr Qadri said “Shahbaz will take his last breath at the hands of Angel of Death, but we are only making ground arrangements for that to happen.”

He said all central leaders of opposition parties have been invited to the APC. He said according to official record, 809 policemen from 45 police stations including 204 snipers and sharp shooters participated in the operation to remove barriers in Model Town, asking if such huge arrangements were made without the orders of Chief Minister. He said according to PAT leaders’ observations, the actual number of policemen in the operation was five times higher than that. He said Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif are the two sides of the same coin and had no difference between them.

Sh Rashid said he would obey every order and decision of Dr Tahirul Qadri, adding that Shahbaz Sharif would never be able to get away with Model Town killings. He said Hudaibiya Paper mills case was the mother of all crimes, adding that he had requested the judges to provide him the copy of judgment since Sharif brothers were taking advantage of delay in appeal. Sh Rashid alleged that both Sharif brothers were playing a double game, one praised army and judiciary while the other used abusive language against them. He accused Nawaz Sharif of carrying out a foreign agenda in the country. He said prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was also playing on the both sides of the wicket, adding that in the cover of development funds PM was distributing such huge money to win loyalties which was higher than that which was doled out by Ishaq Dar. He said instead of legislation on Fata reforms, PM was paying visits to a disqualified prime minister.