Pakistan

Model town carnage: Nawaz asked PAT leaders to stop Qadri, says Gandapur

When they refused, the PML-N leaders became furious and warned they would crush the movement, says PAT leader

Our Correspondent September 20, 2016

He alleged PAT leaders Fayyaz Warraich and Altaf Hussain Shah were taken to Model Town Block H, where the Sharif brothers asked them to stop Qadri from coming to Pakistan in a commanding tone. When they refused, the PML-N leaders became furious and warned they would crush the movement. PHOTO: MEHMOOD QURESHI/EXPRESS

LAHORE: A Pakistan Awami Tehreek leader has told the anti-terrorism court hearing the Model Town carnage case that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif had asked him and his two colleagues to ask party chief Dr Tahirul Qadri not to come to Pakistan.

On Tuesday, Khurram Nawaz Gandapur testified before the court in the Model Town incident in which 14 PAT workers were killed when police attacked Minhajul Quran Secretariat on June 17, 2014.

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Gandapur told the ATC that the Sharif brothers had asked him to restrain the PAT chief from initiating the anti-government movement.

He alleged PAT leaders Fayyaz Warraich and Altaf Hussain Shah were taken to Model Town Block H, where the Sharif brothers asked them to stop Qadri from coming to Pakistan in a commanding tone. When they refused, the PML-N leaders became furious and warned they would crush the movement.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 21^st, 2016.