Pay up: Woman seeks case against PAT for not paying compensation

She presented a membership certificate bearing Qadri’s signature

LAHORE: A woman filed a petition at the district and sessions court on Monday seeking compliance orders to register an FIR against Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr Tahirul Qadri among others for not returning her ID card and paying her Rs3,500 for each day she had participated in PAT’s Inquilaab March.

Earlier, Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Masood Hussain had directed her to file a complaint with the Faisal Town SHO. He had also told the SHO to record the woman’s version and proceed with the case.



Petitioner Hajan Momina said that she had visited the Faisal Town police station on January 6 to file her complaint against Qadri, his son Hassan Mohyuddin, his daughter Fatima and PAT president Raheeq Abbasi. She said the SHO did not register the case.

At previous proceedings, PAT officials had said that Momina was not a member of the PAT. However, this time she brought to court a life membership certificate which bears Tahirul Qadri’s signature.

Momina said the PAT had promised to pay each woman joining the Inquilaab March Rs3,500 for every day she stayed at the protest camp.

The judge sought comments from the SHO by January 14.

PAT spokesman Qazi Faiz said Momina was telling a false tale. He said she had been planted by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz to damage PAT’s reputation. He said no one had offered anyone money to join PAT’s Inquilaab March.

Asked why PAT was not pursuing a libel case against the woman, he said it was a minor issue and that PAT had no time to respond to it.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 13^th, 2015.