What is Tahir-ul-Qadri upto?

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Something peculiar! Yes.
For all purposes and intentions everything that has been going on the current political stage especially with this “turning Islamabad into a seized city and World’s largest Tahrir Square” is not regular of course. But what is more disturbing is that there erupted a sudden need to disrupt a democratic structure and to hamper the to-be-first ever democratic transition where one elected government (not under a military dictator) would be seen handing over power to another. The question is why Pakistan’s steps towards democracy are being hurdled now?

For Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran leader Tahir-ul-Qadri the answer lies in revolution! One in the footsteps of Arab spring to “save the nation”, bring reforms and to “give rights back to the poor”. And all these revolutionary ideas came to his mind right before the election time.

Qadri, a Canadian citizen recently returned to Pakistan after a five-year-stay in Britain. He came back with an agenda that is clearly backed by a strong power, which many critics like to name ‘establishment’. Qadri came back to Pakistan with a revolutionary plan and gave Pakistan Peoples Party-led government three-week deadline for electoral reforms and if they fail to do so they were threatened with a “million-man march” to Islamabad on January 14 for a Cairo styled revolution. This deadline was announced in a huge rally arranged in Lahore on December 23.

Unbelievingly youth seem to cling to Qadri’s words seeing them as a hope of change and many political parties have corroborated to the fact that demands of Qadri are justified and rightful. MQM however did more than that, it joined forces with Tahir-ul-Qadri to make this “Safar-e-Inqilab-e-Pakistan” more organized by promising its full support to long-march. Tahir-ul-Qadri and Altaf Hussain together addressed a rally organized by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in Karachi on Tuesday and revealed a more explicit plan of action and their thematic agenda. The objectives sound unclear and vague no matter how strongly Qadri presses that his mission is “to uphold the Constitution of Pakistan and to restore Jinnah’s true democracy.”

The underlying objective can be analyzed from the timings of this uprising and from the plan of action by Qadri-led-group: a direct or indirect intervention of military.

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Author: Maliha Naveed
Posted On: Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Source: Pakistan Herald

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