Inflation march will be last nail in govt’s coffin: Fazl
Despite the government’s requests, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Tuesday that the opposition alliance would be moving ahead with its plan to hold an “anti-inflation” long march to Islamabad on Pakistan Day (March 23).
He expressed these views while speaking to the media in Islamabad after a meeting of the heads of the PDM’s component parties.
Asked how the PDM would enter the federal capital on March 23 as security arrangements would be tight due to the military parade and a session of the Organisation of Islamic Organisation (OIC), he replied: “The PDM will enter. They [the government] knew that we were staging a long march on that date. Under what conspiracy did they make such recommendations?”
He said that as far as the military parade was concerned, it would begin early morning and wrap up by Zuhr prayers. “We will come after Zuhr prayers.”
The PDM had already given a call for holding a long march to Islamabad against the price hike on March 23. Last week, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed had urged the opposition alliance to change the date as the nation would be celebrating Pakistan Day while foreign guests would also be present in the country for the OIC summit. He had suggested that the PDM reschedule its march to hold it four days before or after March 23. The minister had also indirectly conveyed to the PDM that there was a chance that the government might seal Islamabad due to the parade and other activities.
