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War against rulers hasn’t ended, only front has changed: Qadri
* PAT chief says he is not going home but will travel city to city to achieve objectives of revolution march * Rejects rumours about deal with government
staff report/inpPESHAWAR/ABBOTTABAD: Two days after calling off a two-month-long anti-government sit-in in Islamabad, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri said on Thursday that the “war” continues but the “commander” has changed the front to achieve the objectives of “Revolution sit-in”.
Addressing a public meeting the PAT chief said he was not going home but would travel from city to city, “which will take away the sleep of the rulers”. He rejected the impression of an under-hand deal with the government for his sudden decision to end the sit-in in the Red Zone of the capital and said had it been so, people would not have come to his meeting in large numbers. Qadri reasoned on Thursday that he could not spread the “message of revolution” across Pakistan if he continued holding the Islamabad sit-in.
He gave this reasoning while addressing his maiden public meeting in Abbottabad District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where he attracted a significant crowd of both men and women, young and old. The PAT chief called off Islamabad sit-in on Tuesday after “protesting” for over two months outside the Parliament House. “I would not have been able to take the message of revolution from one city to another had he continued the Islamabad sit-in,” Qadri said in defence of his action. “I do not travel by air. It would have taken me as many as 15 days to travel to all places. I could not leave behind my supporters in Islamabad,” the PAT chief told his supporters.
Qadri told his supporters: “It was God’s will to give ‘the pharaohs’ some time. The government did not immediately fall, but God gave us a gift. The entire nation awoke to the idea of revolution.” He continued: “We are not going home. We will go from city to city. This is our journey of revolution.” Even children, the PAT chief added, were now “urging” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to “step down” by shouting “the slogan ‘Go Nawaz Go!’” He hoped newborns would not cry but will “shout ‘Go Nawaz Go!’” He announced that the PAT would hold a rally in Bhakkar on November 23, one in Sargodha on December 5, and on December 25 in Karachi.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk