I congratulate the whole nation that, by the grace of God, responding to the call of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), the members of PAT alongside general public longing for revolution have turned out in their millions concurrently in sixty cities bolstering the protests. On the occasion of this historic 11 May protest against the corrupt and exploitive system, I give the good news to my fellow citizens, elders, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, lawyers, traders, labourers, farmers, students and all the downtrodden victims of the authoritarian rule for last 65 years that the days of waiting for the Quaid-e-Azam’s Pakistan are over. This is the time to rise and free the homeland afresh from the fetters of terrorist, extortionist and corrupt mafias. Come forward, join the revolution, and rebuild Pakistan into a real and people’s democracy.

11 May 2014 is the day of iqama in this peaceful democratic revolutionary journey. On this day, I wanted to see the state of readiness and strength of my people to take to the streets. Your zeal, enthusiasm, resolve and firmness to strive for the rights guarantee the victory. You will now wait for the final call, and the movement of popular, democratic and peaceful revolution will enter into its final phase. The governance of the country will be taken away from the corrupt rulers and will be transferred to the masses; the system of exploitation, extortion, corruption, bigotry and oppression will come to an end and injustice, lawlessness, hunger and destitution will be sent packing.

There is no deficiency of human resources or dearth of material resources in Pakistan. However, because of a few families having usurped these resources, they do not reach the millions of poor people. That has caused the millions in majority face hunger, starvation and diseases; there is no food, drinking water, medicines and treatment, causing the mortality rate alarmingly increasing and rocketing the crime rate shockingly high. The mothers are deprived of babies and vice versa. Society is afflicted with immorality, callousness and extremism and the rulers are only disinterested in peace and security and observance of human rights.

On this occasion, I would like to address the accusation that people will not come out on our call; others say that those who come out are students of schools and madrassas. I challenge them to impartially observe these protests in sixty different cities of the country. What you can see is not children from schools and madrassas but the oppressed and wronged general public; they are people from the middle class, lower middle class and have-nots. There are also people from traders and farmers’ alliances, lawyers, teachers, scholars, the members of the civil society, labourers, office workers and university students.

If those in government believe that they are the true democratic representatives of people and street power is on their side, then what are they worried about? Why have they closed down bus stations throughout the country? Why have they revoked the licences of transport companies? Why have they forced fuel filling stations to close? If the masses are with them, then why was all public transport shut down 36 hours earlier? It was the requirement of democracy to leave the ground open and allow the masses to decide for themselves. Then they could see whether or not tens of millions of people take to the streets on my call. They could give choice to the people to reject my call, because I am giving it from Canada. But people have no concern with the fact that I am in Canada; they always come out on my call. It clearly means that the masses want revolution. When I will give the final call for revolution, then I will be among the masses; it only takes me 13 hours to get to Pakistan. I will personally lead the revolution of the masses and will remain among people to demolish the brutal system of governance based on oppression, subjugation, corruption and state terrorism. This cowardly step by the government is the first victory of the masses on this journey to revolution, and the rulers have accepted their defeat by exposing their embarrassment and frustration. People have braced up for any eventuality and have the firm resolve to take the revolution to its logical conclusion.