LAHORE: Dissatisfied at the outcome of the all-party conference held under the chair of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Awami Tehreek chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri says it vindicates that the government lacks vision to combat terrorism.

“No participant of the APC bothered even to strongly condemn the terrorists what to talk of framing a policy to eradicate the menace of terrorism,” the PAT chairman was quoted as criticizing the Peshawar APC on school massacre in a statement issued by the party here on Wednesday.

“They’ve cut a joke with the nation in the name of consultation. The APC should have announced an open war against the elements providing political, social and financial support to the militants.”

Dr Qadri, who is in the US for his heart treatment, said his party was not invited to the consultation because the authorities knew that the PAT would have called a spade a spade to the dislike of the government.

Criticizing the APC participants, he said it were the same leadership which supported talks with the Taliban and got delayed the military operation Zarb-e-Azb for nine months.

He said the nation would have felt satisfaction had the prime minister given a press briefing after hanging the terrorists.

He lamented that just committees were being formed after more than 50,000 martyrdoms in the last 10 years in the country.

Published in Dawn, December 18th, 2014