According to Express News, heavy contingents of police have been deployed in Model Town and all roads leading to Minhajul Quran secretariat have been sealed.
There were reports that police were raiding houses of PAT activists and were stopping those activists who were trying to reach the Minhajul Quran secretariat ahead of Youm-e-Shuhada.
PAT Principal secretary GM Malik claimed that around 3,000 activists had gathered at the Minhajul Quran secretariat ahead of Youm-e-Shuhada.
Crackdown has started on homes of #PAT workers in different districts of Punjab. #RevolutionAhead #Pakistan
— Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri (@TahirulQadri) August 6, 2014
The PAT chief decried the arrests and asked government to refrain from resorting to such acts. Qadri further urged the Punjab police not detain PAT activists.
Express News reported that as many as 22 PAT workers were arrested in Faisalabad.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Rehman Malik has called the whole act of police cordon and detention of PAT activists part of a surreptitious 'deal' between the government and PAT.
It looks yet another deal betw TUQ and PML N for a consented house arrest in Lhr which will give TUQ an excuse not to march to Isb/join PTI
— Senator Rehman Malik former Interior Minister Pak (@SenRehmanMalik) August 6, 2014
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@Ranjha:
Hehehehehehehehe.....Punjab and that too under your control? PPP tried its luck and did everything in the book to harness Punjab from the controls of Sharifs and have been unsuccessful for a generation now. Hey, no harm in dreaming even in broad daylight. You folks are exempted from a major lobotomy of the head.
@Adnan Siddiqi:
Don't worry, once we have Punjab under our government and all the Qaidoos are in jail (or Jeddah?), I will find a lovely Heer to settle down with!
Do come with a big appetite, Qeema Naan will be served at the valima by your favourite Naunehal Burgers!
@Sami:
Rest assured Sir that in the coming days, the leader of the facebook domain would also cut such a deal because the cat is now out of the bag that this fasadi charade is being managed and directed by none other than Shuja Pasha.
@Ranjha:
Ranjha Ji, you ought to be looking for a "Heer" instead of finding solace in Burgers and Ketchup - just my two cents
@Naan Siddiqi:
Would you like fries and ketchup with your burger after Aug 14?
TuQ is trapped, he has money laundering, incitement to violence, and tax evasion cases stacking up against him which could even effect his Canadian citizenship. He needs face saving to back off. Seems he has made a deal with the govt and the 'cordoning off' plus arrests will give him an excuse to cancel his protest or justify a poor showing.
Trolls and the Naunehal-e-Burgers ought to worry more about their own pea brained leader than the con artist from Canada.
If this is democracy then what is dictatorship??
Punjab Police need to be wise, possible retaliation could at their homes as Tahir Ul Qadri warned, the most peaceful and unarmed sect of religion is being forced to take arms like others in the country
Bye bye PMLn dictatorship. Mian brotheraan's consultant are very poor minded, bureaucracy is not friend of anyone and Sharifs consider them as member of PMLn.
The Game Begins. How it began was in Nawaz Sharif's hands; how it will end will be in someone else's.
what Bhutto did with NAP,now Nawaz and his brother both are doing with PAT, history is being repeated but differently.
Here we go. The END GAME for the Sharif brothers and PML-N has started. This will only end with the Sharifs back in prison or in exile. They just never learn.
FIR against Qadri, but arresting his supporters. Maniacs are ruling the country.