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And now! Aam Aadmi Party launched in Pakistan

Lahore: The success of Aam Admi Party in India seems to have crossed boundaries and inspired people in Pakistan, where a party has been launched with the same name.  A group led by Arslan-ul-Mulk, a

PTI Published : Mar 09, 2014 21:23 IST, Updated : Mar 09, 2014 22:23 IST


“Is today's Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah had envisioned? Is this a state where all are equal and enjoying the fruits of freedom? The present leadership, both political and bureaucracy, has lost the essence of why Pakistan was created”. The AAP will strive for that cherished dream of the founder of Pakistan,” Mulk said.

He said: “Twenty AAP workers and I were detained and tortured at central Jail Gujranwala last month. Physical assaults, illegal forced physical labour and detention in solitary cells kept for hardened criminals commonly known as “Chaki's” were meted out to us.”

He said his party would protest against police torture. 

“I have chosen hunger strike as an ultimate mode of political protest against pervasive injustice,” he said.
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