Qadri wants national govt under SC’s supervision

Minhajul Quran International Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri on Sunday called for formation of a national government under supervision of the Supreme Court (SC).
In his video address from Canada to a public rally at Liaqat Bagh, Qadri said that to pull the country out of existing problems a national government was the need of the hour. He said that time had come for a change, adding that a national government, having representation of all segments of society, including the army and judiciary, could resolve the problems being faced by the masses. “In the current system where people are dying of hunger, rampant corruption, rising price hike, our society neither remains Islamic nor democratic,” he said. The cleric said that Pakistan’s present system needs a political surgery.
“The real change would neither emanate from the establishment nor from the current electoral system, rather the people’s uprising against the oppressive system would be instrumental in changing the system,” he said. Qadri said that even if 100 elections were held under the present system, the dream of change would never materialise. The Minhajul Quran chairman strongly criticised policies of the Election Commission (EC). “According to elections laws, no candidate can spend more than Rs 0.3 million on his election campaign but in every election, candidates spend million of rupees for running their campaigns but the EC keeps mum over the issue.”
Some participants chanted slogans in former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer’s killer Mumtaz Qadri’s favour due to which a scuffle broke out between the participants. Police arrested five people for disturbing the rally and shifted them to the police station.