Unveil report or be prepared for a march on Islamabad, warns Tehreek-e-Labbaik
FIR to be lodged against interior minister, says K-P chapter of religious group
Members of the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, an Islamist political party, gather during a sit-in in Rawalpindi, Pakistan November 17, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood
PESHAWAR:
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chapter of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah has warned of a protest march towards Islamabad on January 4 if the government fails to unveil the Raja Zafarul Haq report that probed the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat clause issue.
The party says it will observe Mumtaz Qadri’s death anniversary on January 4 – even though Qadri was hanged on February 29 last year and January 4 is the date of the assassination of Punjab governor Salman Taseer at the hands of Qadri in 2011.
The gathering on January 4 “will be converted into a sit-in if the government fails to make the report public” by then, said Dr Muhammad Shafiq Amin, the K-P chief of the Tehreek, while talking to media-persons in Charsadda on Wednesday.
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He also announced that an FIR would also be lodged against the interior minister over what he said the killing of Faizabad protesters in police action on November 26.
He said that death toll from the police action was more than seven, claiming that several members of his party were still missing. He accused the government of hiding the actual death toll.
Amin hailed army’s efforts for defusing tension in Islamabad and averting a catastrophe, and said they were assured full inquiry into the matter by the armed forces.
He said the government tried to lure them by offering a lucrative compensation package over the victims of the Faizabad sit-in. But, he added, his party refused to strike a deal “as it is tantamount to betraying with the blood of the martyrs”.
The Tehreek office-bearer slammed Dr Tahir-ul Qadri of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) for issuing a statement against his party, and said it was only Tehreek-e-Labbaik that raised voice against the bid to change the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat oath for lawmakers, despite having no support from any source.
He claimed that his party had the power to derail the government on the last day of the sit-in, but the party men exercised restraint in line with the advice of their leader.
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He also condemned the 34-member constitutional committee that was formed to amend the clause for “not admitting its error”. He questioned why the government was hesitant to unveil the inquiry report despite the passage of 52 days. He said the law minister’s resignation was justified as it was he who introduced the change in the declaration.
Amin said that the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal was “struggling for Islamabad and not Islam”, and the Tehreek-e-Labbaik would not become a part of it. He welcomed Maulana Sami-ul Haq’s decision to form an alliance with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), but said it was premature to talk of any such alliance between the Tehreek and the PTI.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chapter of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah has warned of a protest march towards Islamabad on January 4 if the government fails to unveil the Raja Zafarul Haq report that probed the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat clause issue.
The party says it will observe Mumtaz Qadri’s death anniversary on January 4 – even though Qadri was hanged on February 29 last year and January 4 is the date of the assassination of Punjab governor Salman Taseer at the hands of Qadri in 2011.
The gathering on January 4 “will be converted into a sit-in if the government fails to make the report public” by then, said Dr Muhammad Shafiq Amin, the K-P chief of the Tehreek, while talking to media-persons in Charsadda on Wednesday.
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He also announced that an FIR would also be lodged against the interior minister over what he said the killing of Faizabad protesters in police action on November 26.
He said that death toll from the police action was more than seven, claiming that several members of his party were still missing. He accused the government of hiding the actual death toll.
Amin hailed army’s efforts for defusing tension in Islamabad and averting a catastrophe, and said they were assured full inquiry into the matter by the armed forces.
He said the government tried to lure them by offering a lucrative compensation package over the victims of the Faizabad sit-in. But, he added, his party refused to strike a deal “as it is tantamount to betraying with the blood of the martyrs”.
The Tehreek office-bearer slammed Dr Tahir-ul Qadri of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) for issuing a statement against his party, and said it was only Tehreek-e-Labbaik that raised voice against the bid to change the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat oath for lawmakers, despite having no support from any source.
He claimed that his party had the power to derail the government on the last day of the sit-in, but the party men exercised restraint in line with the advice of their leader.
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He also condemned the 34-member constitutional committee that was formed to amend the clause for “not admitting its error”. He questioned why the government was hesitant to unveil the inquiry report despite the passage of 52 days. He said the law minister’s resignation was justified as it was he who introduced the change in the declaration.
Amin said that the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal was “struggling for Islamabad and not Islam”, and the Tehreek-e-Labbaik would not become a part of it. He welcomed Maulana Sami-ul Haq’s decision to form an alliance with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), but said it was premature to talk of any such alliance between the Tehreek and the PTI.