Daily Times

LAHORE: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chief Mustafa Kamal is going to meet Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri on Saturday in Lahore.

Mustafa Kamal might as well join forces with Dr Tahirul Qadri who has also been given support by the two major parties of the opposition, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). PTI chairman Imran Khan had expressed support for Qadri’s expected agitation through a press conference before the latter even announced it while Asif Zardari, chairman of PPP, went to see Qadri at his Model Town residence along with other senior party leaders.

Mustafa Kamal said while talking to media upon his arrival in Lahore that everyone was trying to save the government in the current scenario while the people of Pakistan continued to suffer. “Nobody is worried about the development”, he said during the media talk.

Kamal will be meeting Tahirul Qadri in the wake of the release of Justice Baqir Najfi commission’s report on the Model Town tragedy in which the honourable judge had implicated Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif and his law minister Rana Sanaullah along with senior police officials of the time for having failed to stop the operation on June 17, 2014 which claimed lives of 14 PAT workers and left several injured.

Tahirul Qadri had led a long march alongside Imran Khan in August 2014 and the two had demanded immediate removal of the government but Qadri abandoned Khan later on, calling off his sit-in upon failure to effect the downfall of the government while the PTI sit-in continued for another couple of months and was called off only after the APS Peshawar attack in which over 140 people had died including 131 children.

After the release of the inquiry report recently by Punjab government, Tahirul Qadri had directed his workers to stay ready for the call for agitation and since then leaders from various political parties have expressed support for his movement.