JHANG: Pakistan Awami Tehrik chief Dr Tahirul Qadri said on Tuesday feudalism and capitalism would be rooted out in the next elections.

The PAT candidates will contest and win all seats of national and provincial assemblies from Jhang, he announced while speaking to a public gathering at Ayub Chowk on way to Athara Hazari and Garh Mahraja.

Dr Qadri during his short speech said he would spend the whole week meeting flood victims. He said people of Jhang, his home town, had always given him love and he would hold a grand public meeting in Jhang very soon.

He said the reception showed that people wanted a change and were fed up with the policies of the rulers. He said that after two days he would be back in Jhang to visit Chund Bharwana and would leave for Chiniot after staying for a day in Jhang city.

He praised the media for playing a role in the grooming of the general public.

TOBA TEK SINGH: Dr Qadri told a gathering at a reception hosted by Nawan Lahore former union council nazim Chaudhry Azhar Abbas Chattha that wrong economic policies of the Sharif brothers had led to unemployment and forced people to commit suicides.

He said the PAT’s Faisalabad public meeting had set a record of attendance and people were joining the party.

Azhar Abbas Chattha and some other political figures of Nawan Lahore, including Shahid Samra, Rai Mansab Dad Kalia, Tajammal Hussain Gill, Mehr Aslam Bharwana, Ikhtiar Ahmad Sipra and Noor Hussain Paroya, announced joining the PAT.

Published in Dawn, October 15th, 2014