Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Allama Tahirul Qadri has threatened to “declare a war” against the government if marchers were not provided justice.
“If we declare a war, whoever comes in front of us will be swept away,” Qadri told his supporters in Islamabad Sunday. “We will continue this struggle for rights even at the cost of our lives,” he said.
The PAT chief warned that if these unarmed protestors became “hungry lions”, nobody would be spared from their wrath.
Qadri also rejected media reports that people were brought to the sit-in on rent. Not a single person was paid for joining the Inqilab March, he stated.
Qadri said that he was fighting the war in line with the vision of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. “I want to demolish the incumbent system of oppression and replace it with a genuine democracy,” he said, asking for a new social contract.