Lahore killings part of Qadri-Shujaat ploy: Farooq

ISLAMABAD - Terming the killing of Model Town killing of 12 people by the Punjab police a ploy of Qadri-Shujaat duo, Chief Coordinator of PML-N Siddiqul Farooq has said that Tahirul Qadri wanted to derail the incumbent political dispensation, as he did not want to see the country progress under the democratic order.
Addressing a press conference here at the party’s central secretariat on Sunday, Siddiq said that Threek Minhajul Quran (TMQ) chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri and PML-Q chief Ch. Shujaat Hussain and Pervaiz Elahi had held series of meetings in London and hatched a conspiracy against the strong democratic order in the country. Under the plan, homecoming of Qadri was advanced to June 23 from July to derail the present democratic government by counting on the “blood of some workers”.
He said the conspirators took advantage of the action to remove illegal barriers outside the TMQ offices according to the plan, which was hatched to disrupt and sabotage the development process currently underway in the country. Siddiq further said that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had set up a judicial commission to probe the Model Town incident and expose this conspiracy. He hoped that the commission would lay bare the actual facts before the nation.
Replying to a question, he claimed that fearing of being exposed, both Qadri and Chaudries had boycotted the judicial commission. He recalled that in 1990 Qadri had staged a drama on his house, which was exposed by a judicial inquiry.
Qadri himself does not meet the crtiteria set out in Articles 62 and 63 of Constitutions as in the past he was declared a “liar and actor with penchant for fame” by a high court judge in his inquiry report of the incident, he added. 
Siddiqul Farooq asked in which capacity and under which law Qadri could call for security forces to take over Benazir Bhutto Airport and Model Town upon his homecoming.
“Why has Minhajul Quran administration not provided footage of CCTV cameras to the judicial commission so far?” he said.

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