LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has announced countrywide protest rallies from December 29 onwards against skyrocketing prices.
According to the announcement, the PAT will hold rallies on December 29 in Lahore, on January 5, 2014, in Rawalpindi, on January 12 in Karachi and on January 19 in Peshawar.
Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri made this announcement while addressing a meeting of Executive Council of PAT through a video link, said a press release. Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, Bashrat Aziz Jaspal, GM Malik, Qazi Faiz ul Islam, Jawad Hamid and Ch Afzal Gujjar were also present on the occasion.
He said drones should be shot down as stopping Nato supplies would not produce any result. He said that Pakistan’s national interest was supreme and it must be upheld at every cost. He said that Pakistan had the capacity to shoot down drones.
Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said that tax evaders and corrupt mafia were being given unprecedented favours and privileges at the cost of honest tax payers, adding that no such ‘robbery’ ever had been committed in Pakistan’s history. He said that the ‘robbers’ and industrial barons were being afforded an opportunity to whiten their black money through this incentive package.
He said that Pakistan had been sold in the hands of select families once again. He said that corruption had won and the poor was defeated. He said that PAT would stop the plunderers and tax evaders with the support of people of Pakistan from going ahead with their evil ways.
Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said that the United States was friend of no one but loyal to it own interests. He said it could go to any extent to secure its interests. He said that fighting a war against anyone was out of question as it was sheer foolhardiness. He, however, added in the same breath that there should be no compromise on sovereignty of the country at all. He said that staying put for the protection of national sovereignty was need of the hour.
Dr Qadri said that prayers by 10 million Namazis would soon be held for protection of sovereignty and stability and to rid the poor of the plunders of national resources that would lead to a revolution.
He said that protest rallies being organised by PAT would be attended by the people belonging to various walks of life, including the elderly, women and children. He said that it would be a people’s protest.
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