Addressing a heavily attended press conference in the afternoon of Friday, August
11, PAT Chairman Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that daughters, sisters, widows
and family members of the martyrs of the Model Town tragedy will sit on The Mall
Road on August 16 with a plea of justice for the honorable Chief Justice of the
Lahore High Court. He said that he will visit them in order to express solidarity
with them. He said that it has been two and half years since we have been going
from pillar to post to get Justice Najfi Commission report public.
Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said that it is our humble request to the honorable Chief Justice
of the Lahore High Court with all due respect that he sets up a neutral bench of
the court in the first week after Eid-ul-Azha that takes up our petition for making
the report public. He said that if the report of the Panama JIT can be released
and the Supreme Court can give its verdict on it, why cannot the report of the Judicial
Commission that was set up to probe the Model Town massacre made public?
The family members of the martyrs of Model Town were also present on the presser.
They requested Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri that if the justice has to be delivered on the
roads, then they should be allowed to protest. Bisma, the daughter of Shaheed Tanzila
Amjad, spoke to the PAT Chairman and said that we will continue to struggle for
justice with him till the last moment of our life but why is that it has been three
years and no step has been taken towards administration of justice?
Chairman MQI Supreme Council Dr Hassan Mohi-ud-Din Qadri, PAT Secretary General
Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, Fayyaz Warraich, Basharat Jaspal and other leaders were
present on the occasion.
Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said that it is important that Justice Baqir Najfi Commission
report is made public so that it gets known as to who has been held responsible
for the Model Town massacre. He said that we have our apprehensions with the report
being tampered but for the time being our demand is about its release, adding that
once it is public, we will request the honorable judge who wrote the report to endorse
its contents. He said that we are requesting for constitution of a neutral bench.
We are not saying that the bench should be of our will but at the same it should
not be set up at the behest of the perpetrators of the Model Town incident.
The PAT Chairman said that the grief stricken parents and children of the martyrs
are looking towards the honorable Chief Justice. Answering different questions of
the journalists, he said that we are requesting the Chief Justice because we have
no hope from the killers who crush the people and usurp their rights. He said that
the boy who got run over by a speeding BMW of the motorcade of the former PM was
from among the masses, so he was crushed to death and no one stopped to see what
has happened. He said that an innocent life was lost to a drama enacted by the disqualified
prime minister.
Dr Qadri said that Nawaz Sharif has met his political end and in his extreme
frustration, he is indulging in the act to abuse his opponents. He said that those
who have been leveling allegations against others have proven to be Iqama holders,
stating that Iqama is a kind of passport. He said that the masses are being instigated
to rise up against national institutions. He said that the system that supported,
promoted and fostered Nawaz Sharif for 35 years is being criticized. He said that
this is the first decision against them in 35 years and their cries know no bounds.
He said that the NAB is also manned by their loyalists and the apex court will get
insults from there too. He said that we would move forward with a clear strategy
for getting Justice Najfi Commission report released and justice in the Model Town
case.
14 people were killed.Justice Najfi Commission was set up to probe the killings but its report was never made public #DrQadriRealThreat2PMLN