Ban likely on Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek
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LAHORE: The federal government is reported to have decided to declare the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) as a proscribed organisation.
Police sources privy to the development told Dawn on Tuesday that the decision had been taken at a high-level meeting held in Lahore and Dr Tahirul Qadri’s party was likely be included in the official list – First Schedule of the Ministry of Interior.
Know more: Key leaders of PAT arrested across Punjab
They said Dr Qadri’s speeches had incited his followers and other people against the government, waging war against the state and indulging in incidents of ransacking, arson and terrorism.
The sources said the procedure to be adopted in declaring PAT as a banned organisation would be in the light of the Anti-Terrorism Act, meaning that its fund-raising campaigns would also come under scrutiny.
Published in Dawn, Aug 13th, 2014
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Aug 13, 2014 07:16am
Right on...it is high time that each and every politician is held accountable for their respective irresponsible spoken words and actions...media should also placed under strict code of conduct...
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Aug 13, 2014 07:18am
Finally! A good decision if it comes to that
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Aug 13, 2014 08:49am
I think it is a good step. Not only Dr Qadari but all leaders have to behave like normal politicians and not like competitors.
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Aug 13, 2014 09:06am
Don't push them to corner for your own political motives otherwise new type of terrorism will breed. Bring them in mainstream politics, and defeat them through politics if you Sharifs have mind.
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Aug 13, 2014 10:26am
People are desperately waiting for it. Please do it immediately.
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Aug 13, 2014 10:41am
Shahbaz shareef criticizing citing president Zardari of hanging him upside down and rolling in street, PML N should be Banned also.
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Aug 13, 2014 10:48am
How people people become terrorists? When they are killed and did not be provided justice but suppressed more.
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Aug 13, 2014 11:12am
It will only ignite his supporters more. Just leave him as he is. People will grow tired of him.
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Aug 13, 2014 11:14am
What a joke speaking against government does not mean does not mean waging war against state , it means speaking against corruption and injustice. Sadly we have become such a conservitivr state freedom of speech is now forbidden woow.
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Aug 13, 2014 11:48am
Good decision
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Aug 13, 2014 11:54am
please go ahead and ban them.
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Aug 13, 2014 12:02pm
so we are living in 1984? where there is no freedom to speak and anybody who opposes the king/big brother is banned?
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Aug 13, 2014 01:05pm
All for such ban even though one wonders if to take this guy and his party seriously at all.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:19pm
Mr. Qadri is fake and deluded BUT going thus far to ban a political party which has no history of violence is dangerous. Supporting religious extremists like Hafiz Saeed and Lashkar-e-jhangvi and banning someone who is probably the only religious figure who categorically denounces Taliban, is hypocritical.
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Aug 13, 2014 03:27pm
Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader is just seek man due to his old age , therefore know only how to provocation people of Pakistan destabilized country cheap and dirty stand even without benefit people Pakistan,
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Aug 14, 2014 03:49am
Remember National Awami Party ? It was banned. It re-appeared. It is now Awami National Party. Banning a party is no solution. The governments in this country need to be more democratic. PML (N) is not behaving like a democratic party. Nor thinking that it can be they tomorrow, when out of power.
TUQ is now peoples voice because of PML(N) government's wrong policies. Go in the streets in any province and you will hear common man praising TUQ. I am not his or any other party man. As an ex-media man ( now freelancing ) it is my considered opinion that TUQ & IK will stay on the center stage of the politics, come what may.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:38pm
Both party leader i.e. Khan and Qadri be sent bills for the expenditures incurred in the matter of their marches and it to be made sure that these bills are paid. All money being spent for the security of these two leaders belong to the people of Pakistan.
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Aug 16, 2014 08:18am
So, ban the only moderate religious party in the country?
BRILLIANT! Just brilliant!
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