RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi chapter of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Sunday staged a protest demonstration against the provincial government for not arresting those involved in the Model Town killings.

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The protesters were carrying placards and banners inscribed with slogans against the Punjab government. They also chanted slogans in favour of their demands.

The participants took out a rally from Liaquat Bagh to Committee Chowk and blocked traffic for two hours.A senior leader of the PAT told Dawn that the rally was a part of protests to press the government to launch an independent inquiry into the case.

`We are holding a rally every week in different cities and on June 17 the main gathering will be held in Islamabad to mark the anniversary of the Model Town tragedy,` he said.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Mushtaq Ahmed, the president of the PAT Punjab north, said the Punjab police had become a militant group of the ruling PML-N.

He said the provincial government unsuccessfully tried to influence the victims of Model Town tragedy.

`The silence of human rights activists and lawyers on the tragedy is strange.

They didnotraise theirvoicefortheinnocent people killed in the Model Town by the Punjab police,` he said.