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Thursday 2 February 2012

Sunni Tehrik announces conversion into political party

KARACHI: Sunni Tehreek Chief Sarwat Ejaz Qadri Sunday announced that the party would now become a “political party” and commence its political activities from March 23 with a rally at the Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore.

He said this while addressing the Pakistan Bachao Jan Nisaran-e-Mustafa (PBUH) conference organised by the Sunni Tehrik to mark the martyrdom of two of the outfit’s leaders targeted on the 12th of Rabiul Awwal 2006 at Nishtar Park.

The ST chief, who has been complaining about the trampling of the Tehreek’s rights by the government by not allowing the party to put up its posters in the city, vowed to besiege the Governor House if the murderers of party workers killed on Sunday were not arrested by Monday (today). He said suo moto action should not only be taken on memos but also on acts of terrorism.

Earlier two activists of the Sunni Tehreek (ST), on their way to Nishtar Park to attend the Pakistan Bachao Jan Nisaran-e-Mustafa (PBUH) conference, were gunned down Sunday afternoon. Police said Saleem Qadri and Sohail Qadri were on their way to attend the rally when two men on a motorcycle opened fire on them and fled. On receiving information about the incident, a police van rushed to the spot and shifted the injured to hospital where they were pronounced dead. Police cordoned off the crime scene where they found empty shells of a 9mm pistol.

Activists and leaders of the ST staged a protest at the Civil Hospital where the bodies of the deceased were taken and demanded the immediate arrest of the killers. Sohail Qadri was a resident of BP Factory Gali in Garden while Saleem Qadri lived in Baldia Town area. The funeral prayers of the deceased took place in Baldia Town.


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