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| Qadri claims Sharifs trying to flee country |
| 2014-08-09 |
| [DAWN] LAHORE: As the PML-N goveÂrnÂment is taking 'administrative' measures to curtail the Pakistain Awami Tehrik's protest plans, the latter's chief has claimed that the Sharifs are trying to flee the country and have applied for US visas. The administration erected barricades and placed containers around Model Town, which houses the central offices of PAT and its sister organization Minhajul Koran, adjacent Faisal Town and a portion of Garden Town. It caused hardship for the residents, including those wishing to visit nearby Jinnah Hospital, one of the city's main health facilities. Even PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat and Pervaiz Elahi and leader of opposition in the Punjab Assembly Mahmoodur Rashid were not allowed to enter Model Town. The Chaudhrys were, however, allowed to go to the PAT offices on foot. A crackdown on PAT activists has also been launched across Punjab and vehicles, particularly cycle of violences, are being impounded. The measures have been taken to prevent PAT workers from attending a Koran Khwani programme scheduled for Aug 10 to pay homage to the victims of the June 17 Model Town incident. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... hundreds of PAT workers — both men and women — have already made it to Model Town. Women are camping in a small ground facing the PAT chief's residence, while tents have been erected for men in the main ground outside the offices of Minhajul Koran. Their number is growing day by day as the party is providing them three meals every day. Talking to news hounds, PAT chief Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... alleged that the government had asked the private agency providing him security to withdraw its guards at the earliest. He claimed that Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and other members of his family were trying to escape from the country and had applied for US visas for their personal attendants and cooks since the Sharifs had already got their own visas. Copies of a covering letter written to the US embassy on July 15 on the letterhead of MNA Hamza Shahbaz were also distributed among the journalists. Comments and signatures of the embassy officials on the letter have been smudged to protect privacy. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the leakage of the letter from the US embassy gives credence to the reservations Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had expressed at a meeting of his close friends the other day that the Americans were also playing a role against the government in the current political crisis. Dr Qadri claimed the embassy had invited the Sharif family's staff for interview on Aug 18, but the rulers approached the Foreign Office for an early appointment. He said the UK and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... had already refused to give 'asylum' to the Sharifs. He urged people to reach his Model Town offices so that the Sharifs could not escape accountability and said he would soon announce his next step. In reply to a question about Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... 's statement that doors for talks were open, Dr Qadri said he had shut all such doors. He said he did not believe that his movement would lead to imposition of martial law in the country. Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat said a civilian martial law had been imposed in Lahore and asked Shahbaz Sharif not to try to name Model Town as 'Jallianwala' Town, a reference to the massacre in an Amritsar (India) park by the British in 1919. |
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