ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader Dr Tahirul Qadri on Tuesday announced to shift his party’s sit-in in front of the parliament house.
The first decision of #AwamiParliament is peacefully moving the venue of the sit-in in front of parliament. #Pakistan
— Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri (@TahirulQadri) August 19, 2014
Last year we held a peaceful sit-in before parliament. Now we want to move there. I guarantee there won’t be violence #AwamiParliament
— Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri (@TahirulQadri) August 19, 2014
In his address to the PTA protest rally in Islamabad, Dr Tahirul Qadri said that no worker is allowed to enter any embassy and the Supreme Court building. He said that sit-in will be peaceful in front of the parliament house.
The PAT leader also urged the federal government to remove all containers and let them march towards the parliament house.
PTI to enter Red Zone as planned: Hashmi
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Javed Hashmi said that protests had been staged in the Red Zone in the past and ‘we will certainly go there’ this time as well.
“We have made a final decision to enter into the Red Zone,” the veteran politician Javed Hashmi said.
“Protests had been staged in the Red Zone. We had also demonstrated there in the past and even this time around we have no misgivings about going in,” he added.
Hashmi assured that the PTI protesters will not create any disturbance but added that the government has made a big issue out of it.
Earlier, the federal government handed over the responsibility of the Red Zone’s security to the Pakistan army, the federal interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced at a news conference in Islamabad.
The interior minister reiterated invitation of the government to the PTI and the PAT for holding dialogue and said that he himself and the finance minister Ishaq Dar could go to them for this purpose as the government seriously wants to defuse the situation through peaceful means.
