Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri reaches Lahore, talks to media

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said that it is the first impartial JIT formed in the wake of Model Town tragedy that questioned former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, visited the crime scene and conducted the forensic tests of the bullets and arms used during the police brutality. He said that the last two JIT did not even record the statement of the injured. He said that we are committed to waging this struggle for justice and would continue to do so in the future as well....

SC orders formation of new JIT to probe Model Town case

Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday has disposed of Pakistan Awami Tehreek’s (PAT) plea seeking formation of new joint investigation team (JIT) to probe Model Town carnage and directed the provincial government to reconstitute the team. A five-member larger bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar and comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Azmat Saeed, Justice Faisal Arab and Justice Mazhar Alam Mian heard the case....

Will present our point of view before SC on December 5: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri

PAT Chairman Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that we will present our point of view before the larger bench of the Supreme Court for constitution of a new JIT to probe the Model Town tragedy. The SC is going to take up the petition at its principal seat in Islamabad on December 5. He said that the establishment of a new JIT is inevitable to open the doors of justice on the families of the martyrs. He said that patience and perseverance with which the families have stayed put in their legal struggle is laudable and does not have a parallel anywhere....

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri attends marriage of Ahmad Siddique, brother of Shaheed Umar Siddique of Model Town Massacre

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri attended the Valima ceremony of Mian Ahmad Siddique, the elder brother of Mian Umar Siddique who was martyred in Model Town tragedy on June 17, 2014. Talking to the media on the occasion, he said that the world will see a dreadful end of the perpetrators of the carnage He said that humiliation being heaped upon the mastermind of the tragedy is merely a beginning....

Model Town Massacre: SC forms larger bench to hear plea seeking new JIT

LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Monday ordered constitution of a five-member larger bench to hear a petition seeking new joint investigation team to probe the Model Town Massacre. Hearing the case at the apex court’s Lahore Registry today, Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar said the new larger bench would hear the case from December 5 to examine the plea whether formation of a new JIT needed to process the case....

Constitution of new JIT inevitable for neutral investigation: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri

PAT Chairman Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that redressing the state oppression in the form of provision of justice is the responsibility of the state. He said that the barbarism demonstrated by the police on our innocent workers was unprovoked and one-directional and it were the Sharif brothers who engineered the whole plan, stating that 100 people were shot at and 14 of them were martyred in the broad daylight on June 17, 2014 in Lahore....