Qadri suspends talks with Pakistan government

September 13, 2014 16:11

One of the two anti-government protest leaders in Pakistan today said that he has suspended talks with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government following a crackdown in Islamabad on demonstrators demanding ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

"We have suspended the talks as the government has begun arresting my workers in Islamabad and around the country," Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief and populist cleric Tahir-ul Qadri said, deepening the month-long political impasse in the country.

"The government was unwilling to hear out the legitimate grievances of people who had been camped outside the halls of power for a month now," Qadri was quoted as saying by Dawn

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