After the Gujranwala event, the 11-member alliance of Pakistan’s opposition parties continued their tirade against Pakistan PM Imran Khan in Karachi on Sunday.
PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and PML(N) leader Maryam Nawaz during the Karachi event on Sunday (Photo Credits: AP)
Pakistan Democratic Movement, a coalition of 11 opposition parties, held its second massive gathering at Bagh-i-Jinnah in Karachi on Sunday. This came days after the opposition alliance staged a show of power at a public meeting in Gujranwala against the Pakistan government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The much-talked-about event in Karachi was attended by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) vice president Maryam Nawaz. Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mehmood Achakzai and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman also addressed the gathering.
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari accused Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government’s decisions, including an Island Development Authority. “This incapable and clueless prime minister [Imran Khan] will have to go home,” Pakistani news agency Dawn quoted Zardari as saying at the Karachi event.
PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari (right) and Maulana Fazlur Rehman (left) during the Karachi event on Sunday (Photo Credits: AP)
Bilawal accused Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s administration of being a “puppet government” that did not come to power from people’s votes. “If they don’t let us speak in parliament, we will go out on the streets. If they lock us up in prison, how many people will you jail?” Dawn quoted Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari as saying.
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Responding to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement that he would bring former PM Nawaz Sharif back to the country and put him behind bars, PML(N) leader Maryam Nawaz questioned why Nawaz Sharif’s speech during the Gujranwala event was not aired on television. According to Dawn, Maryam Nawaz said, “Even today, you [Imran Khan] will long for it but Nawaz Sharif will not even take your name, because children have no role in the fight between elders.”
During his speech to address the Gujranwala public meeting on Friday, Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had made scathing allegations against the country’s military establishment. Nawaz Sharif had accused Pakistan Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed of toppling his government and “bringing Imran Khan” to power.