Exclusive: Dr Qadri invites Imran to join his sit-in

I invite Imran Khan to join long march so the forces wanting change can unite, says Qadri.


Imran Khan January 15, 2013
The cleric says that if it was any country other than Pakistan, the prime minister would have resigned even before the court’s decision. PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD:


“If the change does not come now, it will not come after the election either,” says Dr Tahirul Qadri, the Minhajul Quran International chief who, along with tens of thousands of his supporters is staging a sit-in outside Parliament House.


In an exclusive interview with Express News, Dr Qadri also invited Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan to join his dharna.

He said that the Pakistani Tehreek-e-Insaaf was like his party as they also wanted change. “I invite Imran Khan to join long march so the forces wanting change can unite.”

Dr Qadri further said that the Supreme Court verdict had justified his movement, adding that the rulers would have to surrender in a day or two.

He was referring to the court’s order calling for the arrest of all accused in the rental power plants case, including Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf.

The cleric said that if it were any country other than Pakistan, the prime minister would have resigned even before the court’s decision.

He further said that his struggle was against “fraud democracy”. “People of our nation have been slaughtered as if they were goats or sheep,” he said.

Talking about his ongoing sit-in outside Parliament, the Minhaj-ul-Quran International chief said that his workers were fired upon when they tried to remove containers from the roads and called for those responsible to be arrested.

“When our long march is peaceful, why they are erecting barriers?” he asked.

Dr Qadri further said the people who had come to support his mission had come with their free will.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 16th, 2013.

COMMENTS (58)

antanu g | 11 years ago | Reply

going by the comments herringbone...one feels that Pakistanis themselves want the statusquo maintained...for them any one coming forward to to change the tings is agent of one or another power.it's a shame.

saima | 11 years ago | Reply

@Ch. Allah Daad

Bhai, majority of Musharaf's gang of 99 is now in PMLN. so much so that people have started saying PMLN stands for Prevaiz Musharaf Lota Network. :(

My husband is so frustrated at this...specially since he criticized PTI for taking a few PMLQ politicians, but now over a 100 PMLQ are in PMLN, my husband has become the joke of our neighborhood. :(

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