When the government did not oblige, 50,000 people set out on the fabled Grand Trunk Road to Islamabad, taking 36 hours to complete the 300-kilometer trek. Qadri addressed the marchers repeatedly; liberally mixing political metaphors, he called himself a latter-day Mao Zedong on a journey to launch a system-cleansing jihad and initiate a Pakistani version of the Arab Spring.
政府拒绝服从，然后，5万人走向了充满传奇色彩的伊斯兰堡主干道（Grand Trunk Road），在36个小时内完成了300公里长征。塔德里数次向游行者发表演讲，有意散播政治隐喻，自称为当代毛泽东，正在发动一场净化制度的圣战，领导巴基斯坦版阿拉伯之春。