Saturday, December 15, 2012 - Lahore—Preparations are underway to give Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri, a founder leader of Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI) and Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT), a befitting reception and welcome on his return to Pakistan
Welcome banners, party’s flags and posters of Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri have been hoisted and hoardings erected almost along all major city roads, especially in Township while a welcoming campaign has also been initiated through Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri’s posters on the back of auto-rickshaws in the city. According to the official statement of MQI, all the expenditures being incurred on advertisement campaign to welcome Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri is being borne by the people themselves since all segments of society are taking part in this campaign. The official statement further reveals that people sold their houses, their jewelry, and their belongings to book buses to transport them to Minar-e-Pakistan on December 23.
MQI leadership claims that the arrival of Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri after residing so many years in Canada in Pakistan is the beginning of demolishing a system, which is erected on hooliganism, authoritarianism, manipulative tactics, and corruption and simultaneously dawning of a new prosperous, stable and peaceful Pakistan.
The party’ rankers further claim that the advent of Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri in Pakistan is for the purpose of change and their slogan to save the country, not the politics is vividly indicated that as long as this electoral system stayed intact, it is impossible to think of change leave alone make it happen.
In a statement, Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said hundred of elections held under the present system would fail to bring about any change in the country. He said that they wanted to bring real change in Pakistan and those who claimed to do so by remaining a part of this present system were deceiving the people.
“MQI has no hidden agenda and those who compare it with other parties are not doing apt political analysis as MQI has only a sole slogan and this is to save the state, not politics,” he added.
of bringing such legislations in Parliament that could effectively throw out a legislator if he failed to come up to the expectations of the people. He said that the people would not have witnessed such a big and peaceful gathering in the entire history of the country. He said that the public gathering would truly be national in character, which would be attended by workers, farmers, the poor, shopkeepers, labourers and representatives of all walks of life. He said that he would not allow people to return empty handed. He added that he would give them a ray of hope and optimism for a bright future.
MQI General Secretary Rafeeq Ahmed Abbasi said that Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri remained in Canada working on spreading the message of Islam besides writing Islamic books and his return to the country was based totally on patriotic and visionary ideology of introducing a new Pakistan. He said they would not participate in politics but they would crusade to save the state since they believed state is more important than politics. Furthermore, he denied that MQI platform was being used to attain hidden agenda at the behest of the establishment. He said there was a dire need to abolish the present system having little opportunities for a layman to serve the nation by utilizing his skill or talent while on the other hand skilled workforce was trying their luck oversees.
There are political analysts that comparing MQI’s slogan with Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) slogan for change and they pinpointed different similarities between both the parties however, MQI leadership claims that they would not participate in the upcoming general elections.
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