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LHC bars PAT to stage sit-in at Mall Road

August 15, 2017

LAHORE, Aug 15 (INP): The Lahore High Court has halted the Pakistan Awami Tehreek to hold sit-in at Mall Road in Lahore. The Pakistan Awami Tehreek chairman Tahirul Qadri has announced the women sit at Mall Raod on August 16 against the police atrocities in 2014 that had resulted the killing of 14 PAT workers. Earlier, district government Lahore has turned down PAT request to hold sit-in at Mall Road due to security reasons. Deputy Commissioner Lahore informed the PAT leader Sameer Ahmed regarding the decision. On August 12, In a press conference at party headquarter Minhajul Quran Secretariat Tahir ul Qadari said that the widows and daughters of the Model Town martyred have decided to stage sit-in at Mall Road till they get justice. “I request the chief justice to constitute a bench after Eid ul Azha to review the Justice Baqar Najfi report regarding Model Town tragedy, in which 14 PAT workers martyred and take the culprits to the task,” Qadrai said. INP/AJ