Zardari demands Nawaz to return back Pakistan, face hardships

“If Nawaz Sharif is ready for war, be it a long march or a matter of no-confidence, he will have to return home. Leaving the assemblies is tantamount to strengthening Imran Khan. We have to not fight with the government in the mountains but parliament,”

According to GNN, addressing a meeting of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), the PPP co-chairman said that this was not the first time that the democratic forces had faced rigging. He had spent 14 years in jail and faced hardships.

Further, naming former PM Sharif, he said that “if we have to fight then Mian Sab please come back Pakistan, we will all have to go to jail. When Shaheed Bibi came home in 1986 and 2007, we mobilized the whole country,”

According to GNN, the former president said that we have to plan the long march in the same way as we did in 1986 and 2007. He has no fear of anyone. However, the struggle should be for the consolidation of democratic institutions rather than personal obstinacy.

“We fought the Senate elections however Senator Ishaq Dar did not come to vote.”

While questioning Nawaz Sharif he said,  “Mian Sahib, how will you solve public problems? You even did not increase salaries in your government whereas PPP did.”

“I am ready for war but maybe my domicile is different. You represent Punjab and I gave power to the parliament,” he added.

"PPP had passed the 18th Amendment and the NFC award was started in our era and we are punished for giving the powers to parliament," the former president said.

They are ready to struggle till the last breath however leaving the assemblies would be equivalent to strengthening Imran Khan. Decisions should not be made that would distract us from achieving PDM goal, he thought.

He said that the benefit of chaos in the Country will benefit the enemies of democracy, Pakistan Peoples Party is a democratic party.