Qadri says he won’t be deterred even by army
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LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri says his movement for change of the governance system will not drift away from its agenda even if the rulers call in the army to check it.
“The movement for change will continue even if the armed forces martyr a couple of thousands of Pakistanis, including me,” Dr Qadri said on Tuesday when asked to comment on reports that the government was considering to call the army under Article 245 in support of the civil administration for tackling any law and order situation in major towns in the wake of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ’s long march and PAT’s call for revolution.
Reluctant to give a final date for the revolution call, he told a group of reporters here on Tuesday that consultations within the PAT and with other parties were continuing and a final decision in this respect would be made shortly.
Related: Qadri says his agenda different from Imran’s
Asked if his party was opting out of electoral politics, Mr Qadri said it would take part in the electoral exercise but only in the post-revolution scenario after cleansing of the incumbent system and making constitutional changes to check the entry of the corrupt into the power corridors.
“The elections will be the last stage in the revolution.”
Dr Qadri insisted that his revolution was constitutional and democratic in its entirety and it could not be interpreted as subversion of the Constitution.
He argued that the social contract between the citizens and the state stood null and void after the rulers failed to implement the first 40 Articles of the Constitution that pertained to granting rights to the citizens.
Also read: Qadri vows to topple government within weeks
“By desecrating the first part of the Constitution (40 Articles plus preamble), how can the ruling classes expect from the ruled to respect the latter part of the Basic Law (240 Articles that deal with the system to run the country and its institution).”
About the funds for political activities of PAT, he claimed that these were generated by annual membership fees as well as donations.
Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2014
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Jul 09, 2014 07:11am
Well then Qadri Jee, why don't you start off by martyring yourself while the army is busy in Waziristan and Okara?
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Jul 09, 2014 07:11am
Political history of Pakistan proves one thing that Pakistanis never voted on sectarian lines. Otherwise, Shah Ahmed Noorani should have been the prime minister not Bhutto. Dr. Qadri is born opportunist. He grabs money no matters where it comes from. He got money from Sharifs to build his empire. What he is doing in Canada, anybody's guess. He seems to have unlimited amount of money at his disposal but no one's questioning the source. What he wants to do for Pakistan, no one knows. What his revolution looks like, anyone's guess. But it won't surprise me as a drunken womaniser, Yaha Khan, ruled Pakistan and assisted to shrink size of the country.
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Jul 09, 2014 07:25am
Bad move for no reason. ... playing all his cards at once..... unfortunately the game is not poker its becoming more like solitaire.
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Jul 09, 2014 07:30am
If Mr. Qadri or any citizen of Pakistan feels that government of Pakistan has violated the constitution of Pakistan, he should seek remedy from courts and not by civil disobedience, revolution against the government or inciting revolt against the government. He can not be a complainant and a judge at the same time. He is a professor of law and supposed to know that constitution does not allow anyone to bring down government by revolution.
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Jul 09, 2014 07:39am
The man is getting intoxicated by his own idea of inqilaab, getting hyper day by day.
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Jul 09, 2014 07:44am
Even though he is old like me , he has guts of steel , pakistan's man of steel , our own superman.
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Jul 09, 2014 07:47am
Maulana Sahib, a closer look at 2000 years of the world history will reveal that the subcontinent is the only major population center of the world where a revolution has never taken place and unfortunately,it never will. Good luck to you anyways.
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Jul 09, 2014 08:22am
The revolution will be live ! It will be televised ! What revolution ? The leaders are as good or bad as the population itself !
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Jul 09, 2014 08:24am
Whatever Dr Qadri have said, whatever his agenda is, is all 100% correct and is definitely for betterment of this country, not a single man have enough guts to prove his agenda his words wrong.
Except army, every institution is corrupt in Pakistan, rulers are corrupt, judges are corrupt, police is corrupt, media has gone wild, can anyone name any institution that is working sincerely?
No matter revolution comes or not, but the fact is that this will added in history and will remembered in future that a 63 years old man put his all efforts and sacrificed lives to awake this sleeping, divided and ignorant nation.
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Jul 09, 2014 08:31am
I am with this revolution. It will bring Pakistan on the right track of justice and harmony.
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Jul 09, 2014 09:19am
hahhaaaaa Qadri Jee, what was the reason of asking bullet proof car and army protection at Lahore airport???
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Jul 09, 2014 09:25am
If Mr. Qadri wants to make electoral reforms and then elections again , he should have done it prior to elections when he did his first Long March in heated and bullet proof container. The purpose seems to dis mental the govt . not to bring Inqilab.
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Jul 09, 2014 09:29am
All these 'inqlabis' are full of hot air. They will incur more misery & poverty on poor man.
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Jul 09, 2014 10:18am
The Army will not kill innocent civilians.
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Jul 09, 2014 10:28am
The more I hear of his statements, the more I get convinced that this man is suffering from some severe mental disorder. He is not in the right frame of mind and the media would do Pakistan a great service by just boycotting him completely!
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Jul 09, 2014 10:29am
you can`t challenge army!do you?
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Jul 09, 2014 10:35am
Never trust these clerics and Babas dear Pakistan. We've our own set of this species. They are useless.
If you want a change, bring it through a political process. Let religion be restricted to our homes. Though it is difficult, this is the only remedy.
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Jul 09, 2014 10:37am
@oldboy You are joking, aren't you?
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Jul 09, 2014 10:40am
No matter revolution comes or not, but the fact is that this will added in history and will remembered in future that a 63 years old man put his all efforts and sacrificed lives to awake this sleeping, divided and ignorant nation.
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Jul 09, 2014 10:47am
Mr. Qadri has demanded and emphasized the importance of implementing fundamental articles of the constitution pertaining to the welfare and uplifting standards of the deprived class of Pakistan into the hands of depraved politician. The statement of being martyred in the hands of the military does not sound positive though.
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Jul 09, 2014 10:50am
reading the comments below, it seems to me that our nation has big issues in comparing and contrasting the character of one leader from another... is there any criteria we gauge our leaders with...In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices. unfortunately we choose the most corrupt without any moral values..what are we??? folks.Political tags - such as communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. May be Qadri jee is genuine may be not.. My be he wants to bring a change.. let is gauge our leaders on point system before we pass on our comments...
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Jul 09, 2014 10:58am
@Mustafa J.
Qadri Sahib was rote a learner and based on good memory got gold medal in Law college. He knows the constitution like a parrot but does not understand it.
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Jul 09, 2014 11:02am
People will be foolish if they come out to become martyr for this selfish and crazy Mullah.
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Jul 09, 2014 11:05am
Vol 9, Book 88 Number 176 Narrated Ibn Abbas: Prophet said" Whoever disapprove of some thing done by his ruler then he should be patient, for whoever disobeys the ruler even a little will die as those who died in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance..i.e as rebellious...
I believe Qadri should know the Hadith... and wait until a democratic elected government complete the term...
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Jul 09, 2014 11:09am
@oldboy Yeah even being old his lust for power is still young.
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Jul 09, 2014 11:25am
time for this Govt to pack their bags and let the new people rule the country..............whoever comes they surely be better than these corrupt politicians.
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Jul 09, 2014 11:31am
There is no doubt that tremendous amount of injustice exists in our society due to negligence and corruption of elected governments, nonetheless the current government is democratically elected by the people of Pakistan after due process. And this maulana from Canada announces that he would topple the elected govt by "revolution" without any track record of political involvement in shaping the democratic path of Pakistan. At this age, he acts like moody teenagers who love and hate their parents at the same time.
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Jul 09, 2014 11:44am
Come back home please, we miss you in Canada. Let go your Pakistani citizenship, I will pay the fee for you. the army will not interfere at all and the courts will just - Come back to Canada and please fight for our rights here. Let the Pakistanis live in peace please! Take the early flight, we miss you here.
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Jul 09, 2014 11:50am
PTI should ditch him, Sheikh Rasheed and the Gujrat Tola as soon as possible and focus on governance in KPK and handling IDP's.
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Jul 09, 2014 11:50am
Dr Tahirul Qadri get these murders, thugs, corrupt government out. They are looting Pakistan & stashing the wealth abroad
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Jul 09, 2014 12:07pm
Enough is enough. Stop it and get out of our country.
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Jul 09, 2014 12:43pm
@Mohsin mohsin, words r not enough. his deeds r not in sync with his desires. for himself he wants all comforts and protection but his followers r cannon fodder for him. he talks of hussaini lashkar but behave as if he is himself a king like yazeed
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Jul 09, 2014 12:54pm
Brotherhood of Egypt is the benchmark to decide what is in store for Dr. Qadri and its followers. I have on several times commented in this news paper that revolution of the 21st century need lot of sacrifices. Becuase you have to face ruling party, countries armed forces, super powers protecting their own style of democratic govts and the most powerful landlords and industrialists and over and above a thick layer of corrupt beauracrats who will order to fire and refuse to accept that they ever ordered to fire, that too under oath of quran and allah. Can you pass this exam Dr. Qadri.
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Jul 09, 2014 12:57pm
Those people mocking and posting ridiculous comments on Dr Qadri, why don't you get to know the facts. Watch his interview with Amir Ghauri and Mubashir Luchman. Find out what Dr Qadri means by revolution and changing the system. Alas, some of you like living in the existing corrupt system, complain about how the country has gone to the corrupts and yet have a mentality that you will not let anyone lead you out of the pit hole! Wake up, Read, listen and do something worth while. Its now or never.
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Jul 09, 2014 01:07pm
Qadri's core followers are derived from his chain of madrassahs that are unregulated unsupervised. This leaves him free to abuse the trust his student place in him as educator. This small group of his followers has enough capacity to muddy social and political waters in Pakistan but not strong enough to bring about and lead a revolution that he has failed to articulate so far.
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Jul 09, 2014 01:18pm
Thank you sir. Its true and indispensable that we should work for that.
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Jul 09, 2014 01:33pm
Hasn't his visa expired?
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Jul 09, 2014 05:53pm
Who is Tahir-ul Qadir, I think I heard of him once before. You're 15 minutes are over now.
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Jul 09, 2014 11:06pm
This disco Canadian Maulana is the last thing we need right now to further destabilize democracy! Keep quite mullah and let army first clean our land from terrorists and taliban menace before we deal with corrupt nawaz and zaradris. One step at a time! But if alternative is another mullah, I'd rather stick with N and Z.
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Jul 10, 2014 01:15am
@awan I agree awan ji. but one more thing. he does have very nice voice and could become singer and he can make good money in India. I think is he is getting money from them anyway.
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Jul 10, 2014 02:52am
@SKB535 and what do you do if a democratically elected goverment doesnt materalise ?
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Jul 10, 2014 02:55am
@Mohammad Iqbal so pray tell me does one suffer injustice in silence or isnt that the biggest sin of all
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Jul 10, 2014 08:06pm
@Moby That's what i am talking about.
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Jul 11, 2014 03:41pm
@S Chaudhury ------ according to your leader own words, he and his tehreek has bank accounts in 90 countries of the world more than any Pakistani, who collect funds and only the TEHREEK KNOWS TO THE TUNE OF WHAT, can you guess and please let us all know, thanks
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