Dr. Tahirul Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Tuesday filed its reply to Supreme Court and raised over a dozen questions over government’s credibility.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan and PAT chief Dr. Qadri have set up camp cities in front of Parliament to force the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, whom they accuse of rigging last year’s general election.
The PAT has raised the following questions:
1. What’s the legal position of a government formed through rigging.
2. Is the government not violating court orders?
3. Does any accountability system exist among political parties or state institutions?
4. Should the institutions responsible for accountability not discharge their duties?
5. Have the governments not failed in delivering education, justice and health facilities over the past 41 years?
6. Have the governments fulfilled promised made with the masses in the name of democracy?
7. Is there any good governance in present setup?
8. Aren’t the institutions being looted in the name of privatization?
9. Isn’t the government violating court orders while appointing heads of key institutions?
10. Aren’t the masses being oppressed by rulers in the country?
11. Haven’t the governments failed in enforcements of peoples’ fundamental rights?
12. Haven’t the governments violated court orders regarding local government elections?
13. Isn’t the duty of parliamentarians to make legislation rather than carrying out development projects, and does the legislators not commit corruption in funds for uplift project.
The court has adjourned the case till Wednesday.
