PDM announces plans to march on Islamabad at Minar-e-Pakistan rally

ISLAMABAD- The Pakistan Democratic Movement said that it would hold a long march to Islamabad by late January or early February.

The announcement came during a mammoth rally at Lahore’s Minar-e-Pakistan on Sunday, hosted by the PML-N.

PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari formally announced the PMD’s plans to head to the federal capital in a bid to oust Imran Khran from power.

PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said the march will take place late January or early February.

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With the tall and imposing Minar-e-Pakistan behind him, Fazlur Rehman saluted the crowd’s passion and enthusiasm. “The resolve that you have shown will prove to be a milestone in history,” he said.

“The country is currently ruled by an illegitimate government,” the PDM chief said.

He vowed that the government “will be one of the people”. “This system of rigging will no longer work.”

Fazlur Rehman said that people’s emotions are now turning to that of anger and resentment and the Opposition’s movement is aimed at addressing their woes and securing stability for Pakistan.

“Let us all make a vow today. We must keep our land free,” he said to the crowd. “And like a free nation, we have to forge our own identity.”

He said that never in 73 years did India dare such a move but today has “illegally occupied Kashmir and swallowed it whole”.

“Today the poor are unemployed and inflation has broken the backs of the people,” he said, adding that the youth to whom golden dreams were shown have no source of income today.

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz urged her supporters to answer the call for a march to Islamabad.