India installed Sharif as Pakistan PM: Tahirul Qadri

Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri alleged that India has installed Nawaz Sharif as the Prime Minister of Pakistan. He said India was protecting the rule of the Sharif brothers because, in the first place, it was New Delhi that manoeuvred to get them into power.

“Whenever the rule of the Sharif family is in danger, we see an upsurge in terrorist attacks in the country. This should be investigated,” Mr Qadri told his supporters in 105 cities through video link from his Model Town home.

The PAT has been leading a Tehrik-e-Qisas-o-Ehtesab (Retribution and Accountability Movement) to seek justice for the killing of 14 party workers in police action on the party’s headquarters in Model Town in 2014. “When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rakes up Balo-chistan, why does our Prime Minister (Nawaz Sharif) not respond When Kulbushan Yadav was arrested, why did our Prime Minister not say a word about it,” he asked.

Submitting the answer himself, Mr Qadri said: “This is because India got him into power.”

Mr Qadri claimed some foreign states had ganged up to manoeuvre and get the Sharif brothers to win the 2013 general elections. “India is still fighting to keep the Sharifs in power,” he added.

If the Sharifs deny this, then I will reveal the names of the countries that helped them come into power,” he added. He said his information was credible and authentic — and if the intelligence agencies refuted his information, then he would correct himself.

The populist cleric also reprimanded Mehmood Khan Achakzai, whose Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party is a key ally of Nawaz Sharif, for criticising the intelligence agencies of Pakistan in a speech in the National Assembly. “Nawaz Sharif never bothered to respond to criticism of the agencies.”