ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Allama Tahirul Qadri announced on Monday that he, assisted by other political parties, will start a protest movement to end the federal and provincial governments of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).

After a meeting of a steering committee formed by an earlier All Parties Conference (APC), he told reporters that an action committee has been formed to discuss the affairs of the forthcoming protest.

Qadri said the deadline given for resignations of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and their colleagues for the alleged involvement in the Model Town tragedy expired on Monday.

“Now we will not demand their resignations but would force them to quit. It is not the matter of just a few resignations but we are going to end their government through the protest.”

The action committee included Abdul Aleem Khan of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, Qamar Zaman Kaira of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Khurram Nawaz Gundapur of the PAT, Kamal Ali Agha of the PML-Q, Sheikh Rashid and Nasir Shirazi.

Qadri said there was a complete consensus in the steering committee on the launch of the movement. He said the protest will be spread all over Pakistan.

He alleged that the PML-N government has indulged in massive corruption and is busy attacking premier state institutions like the Pakistan Army and judiciary.

BALOCHISTAN CRISIS

In a separate development, Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri belonging to PML-N is struggling to survive a non-confidence motion sponsored by the opposition and some lawmakers of his own party.

He has contacted ousted prime minister and PML-N President Nawaz Sharif and conveyed to him that the issue of no-trust motion against him needs to be resolved. Zehri told him that the motion can have an impact on the results of the upcoming general election.