Dr Tahirul Qadri led Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Saturday has announced December 30 as a new date for its All Parties Conference (APC), wherein the party chief would unveil future course of action after holding consultations with other political parties. The PAT chief had earlier called an APC on December 28 to deliberate on future plan of action against responsible of Model Town massacre in light of the incident report.
However, the PAT leadership rescheduled the date of conference, which will now be held on December 30. Qadri has been demanding the immediate resignations from Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for their alleged involvement in the incident.
Dr Qadri has reportedly telephoned leaders of almost all political fronts of Pakistan and urged them to attend the conference to come to the same page against ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) over loss of innocent lives in July 2014 in Model Town. Model Town tragedy or the Lahore massacre was a violent clash that ensued between the Punjab Police and Pakistan Awami Tehreek activists on 17 June 2014 resulting in the death of at least 14 people.
The standoff lasted for almost 11 hours when the police's anti-encroachment squad launched an operation to remove the barriers from the road leading to the offices of Minhaj-ul-Quran and the residence of PAT founder Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri in Model Town, Lahore. Despite having reservations on publicizing the report, the government made the report public on December 5 in compliance with the Lahore High Court (LHC) orders.