LAHORE:Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri has said that the party will hold the Tajdar-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwwat Conference at Minar-e-Pakistan on 11th Rabi-ul-Awwal (Nov 30).
Addressing media early Tuesday morning at the Allama Iqbal International Airport, the PAT chief said that the country is going through “turbulent times”.
Qadri was referring to countrywide protests by the religious parties which were sparked due to controversial amendment made to the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat oath and only ended on Monday when the government succumbed to the protesters’ demands and Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid resigned.
“We witnessed over the past few days that the government has failed in the entirety,” the PAT chief commented, stressing on how the Parliament has become ineffective and “the ministers seem to be stuck inside their homes”.
Criticising the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Qadri claimed that the nation’s leadership not only fell short in getting the demonstrators to end their sit-in but also made a botched attempt at the subsequent discussions.
“The government’s failure is not hidden from anyone,” he said.
The party chief said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has once again “started sending ‘men’ to ask for forgiveness” and that he has been apologising for the Model Town case since three years.
“The ruling has been finalised; the decision to make public the Justice Baqir Najfi Commission report [which pertains to the Model Town incident] will be coming soon,” he commented.
Qadri has continuously demanded that the aforementioned report be made public, asking what is Shehbaz Sharif — the Punjab chief minister — afraid of, if he is not responsible for the tragedy.
The 2014 Model Town incident left 14 PAT workers dead and scores injured.