Demanding Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s immediate resignation, the country’s major Opposition parties have launched an alliance to carry a state protest movement to oust his government.
A 26-point resolution was adopted on Sunday by the All Parties Conference (APC), which was hosted by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and attended by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) and a number of other other parties.
At a joint news conference after the top of the multi-party meeting, JUI-F chief Mualana Fazl ur Rehman read out the resolution and said that the Opposition parties have agreed to launch an alliance named Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to organise countrywide protests against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government from October.
The resolution alleged that the Khan government has been granted “fake stability by an equivalent establishment” that interfered with the elections to bring the incumbent rulers to power.
In a clear regard to the powerful Pakistan Army, the resolution expressed “extreme concern” over the increasing interference of the establishment within the internal affairs of the country and regarded it as a “danger to the nation’s stability and institutions”.
According to the resolution, the protests would start in phases. within the first phase, the Opposition parties will hold joint rallies altogether four provinces in October. The second phase will begin in December during which the Opposition will hold huge rallies across the country.
Finally, a “decisive” long march towards Islamabad would start in January next year to oust the govt .
The forum also demanded that elections be held again during a transparent manner which electoral reforms should be passed so as to make sure free and fair polls.
Terming the Parliament a “rubber stamp”, the PDM declared that the opposition won’t cooperate with the govt within the legislative process.
The Opposition also will enlist lawyers, traders, farmers, students, media also as members of the civil society in its movement. so as to oust the govt , opposition parties will use “every legal and constitutional option in and out of parliament, which include moving no-confidence motions and collective resignations from assemblies at an appropriate time,” the resolution stated.
The resolution , JUI-F chief Rehman said, has also rejected any plan to introduce a presidential sort of government within the country and pledged to strengthen the parliamentary system of the country.