Army-bashing script dictated from abroad: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri

• Says the government ministers using insulting and derogatory language against the institution of the armed forces.
• Army bashing is not only anti-armed forces but also anti-state act.
• People will rise in coming times, not the armed forces. It will be Putsch by the people.
• Terrorists are the private army of the rulers like Hitler’s Gestapo
• Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri addresses Executive Council of Pakistan Awami Tehreek Telephonically.

Pakistan Awami Tehreek leader Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that protection of the state of Pakistan is the responsibility of the armed forces. He said that nefarious conspiracy was being hatched to undermine their morale, adding that some of the ministers had been deputed for this anti-state activity and they were using insulting and derogatory language against the institution of the army. He said that such a blatant act appeared to be part of anti-Pakistan agenda and it became increasingly manifest that the script of anti-army speeches had been ‘dictated’ from ‘abroad’. Terming it as not only anti-army but also anti-state act, he said that even the ministers of the enemy country did not throw such venom against Pakistani armed forces as was resorted to by the federal ministers.

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri made these remarks while addressing Executive Council of Pakistan Awami Tehreek telephonically.

Dr Qadri said that the ministers could not dare do this by themselves, opining it must be part of the government’s double game. He said that the people, not armed forces, would rise in times to come, which would represent takeover by the people. He said that it has been a pattern of the current rulers that they would always pick up fight with the armed forces and the people in an attempt to strengthen themselves. He said that the terrorists were the private army of the rulers like Hitler’s Gestapo so that the latter could provide the former protection during bad times. He said that the terrorists also played a huge role in ‘facilitating’ the present rulers to ‘win elections’. He said that a combination of terrorist factions and unconstitutionally composed ‘criminal’ Election Commission led by a person who disgraced the sanctity of judiciary ‘enabled’ the present government to come into power. He said that the terrorists had been fed up on foreign ideological agenda and funding.

Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said that the Punjab Government, during its previous stint in power from 2008 to 2013, funded the terrorists, further saying that now the federal government was doing the same. He stated that terrorists, being the private army of the ruling elite, were creating conditions for violence and bloodshed at a massive scale in times to come.

Dr Qadri said, in a message to the armed forces, that every child of the country would stand by the army chief and the armed forces personnel in order to safeguard their institution because it was responsibility of the entire nation. He warned the present rulers to fear the day when the people would take over power from them. He said that he was telling people in advance that the coming times would see Putsch of the masses, not that of the armed forces. He said that martial law or army coup happens to be limited and calculated, whereas people’s Putsch is neither limited nor calculated.