PAT leader Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that we will not go back until we get the resignation of the Prime Minister. He directed his workers to vacate the courtyard of the Parliament House by Thursday.

Taking a strong exception to allegations raised by Khursheed Shah against PAT, Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri termed them baseless, ill-founded and reflective of bias and prejudice. He said that Khursheed Shah accused PAT in order to hide his mega corruption. He said that there was an allegation of bifurcating Pakistan against his party. He said that people of Sindh were of the view that Khursheed Shah was patron of terrorists in their province. He rejected his contention that PAT was not a democratic party. He said that PAT was the same party which was part of Pakistan Awami Ittehad along with PPP in 1998 and PPP worked under him as President of Awami Ittehad. He further said that PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto was the life member of Minhaj-ul-Qaurn International.

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri advised Khursheed Shah to stop badmouthing PAT, warning that otherwise the matter would not rest here. He also asked PPP’s Co-chairman Asif Zardari to stop Khursheed Shah from spewing more venom, adding that otherwise he would be forced to expose many things.

Dr Qadri said that it was said in the Parliament that sit-in consisted of not more than of a few thousand people. He threw a challenge that if all the arrested workers were freed and containers were removed, they would see hundreds of thousands of people in the red zone in three days, adding that if he failed to gather these many people, he would announce to end his sit-in. He said that FIR of Model Town incident had been registered but no accused had been arrested so far. He demanded that all those nominated in FIR should be arrested and their names should be put on ECL.

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said that his party workers did not attack PTV Centre. He said that it was none of his party’s intention to attack any state building. He said that these were the rogue elements belonging to ruling PML-N who perpetrated this attack and switched off transmission of PTV at the behest of Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Ch. Nisar, Pervez Rashid and other ministers to malign the marchers.