Govt creating hurdles for itself, says Shujaat

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE – PML-Q President Ch Shujaat Hussain has said that he would personally receive Pakistan Awami Tahreek chief Allama Tahirul Qadri at Islamabad International Airport Monday morning and warned the rulers not to create hurdles in their peaceful plan.
Addressing a press conference here at his residence Sunday, Shujaat said that they have joined hands with the PAT chief for Islam and Pakistan and wanted to take the agenda of transforming the country into a true democratic state forward. Responding to a question about the hurdles being created by the government in the homecoming of Qadri, Shujaat said that the government was creating problems for itself by creating hurdles in their peaceful plan.
He recalled that previously when Qadri had staged a protest sit-in in Federal Capital they remained peaceful and no damage was done to public or private property. To a question, he said that nervousness of the government was beyond comprehension and by creating hurdles in the way of the peaceful plan of PAT and PML-Q the rulers were actually digging a ditch for itself.
Shujaat said that the government was doing nothing and was just surviving on advertisements. He claimed that the Model Town massacre was the outcome of a well-thought-out plan of the Punjab government but he did not explain the benefit the government was planning to draw out of it. To a question about the ongoing military operation against militants in Waziristan Agency, Shujaat said that the whole nation is standing with their valiant soldiers in the war.
Meanwhile, PML-Q, the major political party supporting the PAT will accord warm welcome to Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri at Islamabad Airport under the leadership of the party chief, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, while the PML-Q has completed all the arrangements in this regard.
Raja Basharat, PML-Q senior leader who was organising the arrangements told TheNation on Sunday that party chief, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Moonis Elahi and other party leaders would welcome PAT chief on his return at Islamabad Airport.  He said PML-Q Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was in Gujrat to accord a big welcome to Dr Qadri on his way to Lahore from Islamabad Airport on Monday (today) and would stay at Gujrat on Monday night.
PML-Q Punjab President, Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi has said that rulers have learnt nothing from Minhaj-ul-Quran tragedy.  He made this remark while talking to the media at the residence of Dr Qadri after meeting his son Hassan Mohyuddin.
He said that arrests and raids prior to the arrival of PAT chief had exposed the rulers.  Pervaiz said that government was itself creating law and order situation by arresting the PAT workers in the name of so-called security measures.
Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, PAT senior leader when contacted to know about their preparations for according grand welcome to their leader Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri claimed that government was arresting their workers but the number of Dr Qadri’s supporters was so big that could not be marred with these cowardly acts.
He said that around 1000 PAT workers in the cities of Chakwal, Sargodha, Sialkot, Gujranwala, Mandi Bahauddin have been arrested by the police, besides more than 150 in Rawalpindi.  He said that only two PAT activists were arrested in Lahore but released after sometime.
He said that Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri would stay at Gujrat on Monday night after addressing a reception organised by PML-Q and reach Lahore on June 24 to address a mammoth public gathering at The Mall.  Gandapur said that PAT Lahore organisation would not go to Islamabad but prepare themselves for a big gathering at The Mall, while party organisations from Rawalpindi, and nearby cities of Pothohar and GT Road would reach Islamabad Airport to accord historical welcome to Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri.