Model Town Killings: PAT seeks army chief’s help

LAHORE: “The army chief must help police apprehend the facilitators, the mastermind and the perpetrators of the violence in Model Town last year in which 14 Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) workers were killed,” reads a resolution passed by the PAT Central Executive Council on Friday. PAT chief Tahirul Qadri chaired the meeting. The resolution demanded that the guilty be tried in a military court. It said the killers were from among the rulers and “due to their influence on one is ready to proceed against them”. Qadri accused government leaders of using the National Action Plan against terrorism as a “selection plan”. “A government within the government and a federation within the federation is working. Cases of recruitment for Daesh show that the government has failed to deliver,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2^nd, 2016.