LAHORE: Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, secretary general of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), announced on Thursday that his party would stage a protest rally and sit-in on The Mall in the Punjab capital on June 17 and party chief Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri would lead the rally. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Gandapur said the Lahore district coordination officer had been informed in writing about the protest plan for June 17. He said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Siraj-ul-Haq, Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President Chaudhry Shujat Hussain and Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) chief Raja Nasir Abbas had been invited to the rally. The PAT secretary general said, “Enough is enough. We demand justice for the martyrs of Model Town. On June 17, our party will be out on the streets to seek justice.” He said that PAT workers from all parts of Punjab would take part in the rally and the sit-in on The Mall on June 17. He expressed the hope that the city administration would not put any hurdles in the way of his party’s rally because the party had already informed the officials about its plans. If anybody tries to put hurdles in the way of the rally, he said, the prime minister, Punjab chief minister and the inspector general of Punjab Police would be responsible for the consequences. He said these were the people whose hands were already stained with the blood of PAT workers who were killed in Model Town at the hands of police on June 17, 2014. Gandapur said the federal government was contemplating action on the request of the Punjab government against the single member judicial commission headed by Justice Baqar Ali Najafi of the Lahore High Court that gave a verdict against the Punjab officials in its final report. He said the report had not been made public for obvious reasons. He said that any misadventure on part of the government would push it into a crisis even worse than the Panama leaks crisis. Speaking on the occasion, PAT Deputy Secretary General Amir Fareed Koreja said that families of the people killed in Model Town had not been dispensed justice even two years after the bloody incident. He said that no progress had been made on the case so far. He said the Punjab government formed a fictitious Joint Investigation Team and it had been presenting forged documents to the investigators. He said the government was trying to make the Model Town incident fizzle out, but the PAT would not let it happen. He said the first information report (FIR) of the Model Town incident was registered only after the army chief intervened. He endorsed Qadri’s view that the families of the victims would not get justice as long as corrupt rulers are in power. He said the case that was under trial in an anti-terrorism court was based on a fabricated FIR. He said the FIR, which the heirs of the victims got registered, was sent to the cold storage of the Punjab government and no action was initiated on that. Brig (Retd) Mushtaq Ahmad, Basharat Jaspal, Fayyaz Warraich, Noorullah Siddique and Sajid Bhatti were also present.