Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri said yesterday that he was willing to surrender to police if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif were arrested in relation to the Model Town tragedy.
Speaking to media representatives in Lahore, the PAT chief said the joint investigation team (JIT) constituted to probe the Model Town tragedy was merely formed to give a clean chit to plotters and killers, adding that it was against the principles of justice and law.
Earlier on Tuesday, the government finalised the formation of a five-member JIT to probe the killings of PAT workers on June 17. The PAT rejected the probe, saying that Abdul Razzaq Cheema has personal relations with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and would not be impartial.
Qadri said the party had demanded that the JIT be formed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, adding that none of the names proposed by the PAT had been included in the team.