Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chief Tahirul Qadri has formally demanded that the prime minister, the Punjab chief minister and their cabinets to step down immediately.
Addressing the participants of ‘Inqilab March,’ Qadri said that federal and provincial government’s top-tier should be arrested as he added that the sessions court in Lahore ordered police to register a case “against the prime minister and the chief minister” over Model Town tragedy.
He said that the names of 21 nominated by Minhajul Quran (MuQ) in its application to the police should be put on Exit Control List (ECL) so that they could not flee abroad.
Putting forth another demand, Qadri said that the parliament and the provincial assemblies should be dissolved immediately.
Stating his third demand, the PAT chief said that a national government be formed following the dissolution of the parliament and provincial assemblies.
Accountability should be carried out against each corrupt political leaders, bureaucrats and public office bearers, he said while announcing his fourth demand.
He said after the formation of the national government, it should ensure imposition of a 10-point socio-economic agenda for underprivileged people, who he said, are being deprived of their rights.
These 10 points are:
10-point agenda:
1. Restoration of legal and constitutional rights of people
2. Provision of basic necessities (including shelter, food, jobs, education and medical faculties at doorsteps) and elimination of hunger, poverty, unemployment.
3. Elimination of terrorism
4. Accountability
5. Democracy: No martial law shall be tolerated in Pakistan
6. Electoral reforms
7. End to terrorism
8. Minority rights: The revolution will put an end to the practice of declaring minority Muslim sects as non-Muslims.
9. Autonomy for district governments
10. Creating at least 23 new provinces in the country
