Govt failures: PDM chief announces 'anti-inflation' march in Islamabad on March 23

Islamabad: The opposition alliance-- Pakistaj Democratic Movement --will hold an "anti-inflation march" in Islamabad on March 23, 2022 (Pakistan Day) to protest against failed policiies of the government, PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced on Monday.

After holding a meeting of the heads of the PDM's component parties, he told reporters that the participants deliberated on the country's current situation.

He stated that the ruling PTI was brought into power as a result of rigging in the 2018 general elections, because of which it was facing failure on several fronts.

He said that the march will be a "huge demonstration" and the "whole nation will participate". "People will come to Islamabad from all corners of the country to participate in a demonstration against inflation, unemployment and poverty."

He said PDM meetings will be held at a provincial level to prepare a strategy for the march. Giving a breakdown, the PDM president said that he will chair a meeting in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chairman Mehmood Khan Achakzai and Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan's (JUP) Awais Noorani will chair separate ones in Punjab, Balochistan and Sindh, respectively.

Rehman said that a seminar would also be held for which he would meet with the lawyers' community as well as the representatives of the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Pakistan Bar Council.

He said a date for the seminar would be finalised after consultations with lawyers, civil society, business and other communities so that all kinds of people could be taken into confidence over the alliance's policies.

Rehman said that the issue of submitting resignations from parliament was also discussed during the meeting, adding that there was consensus on the topic. "[But] we will decide when and where to use this," he said.

Concluding his speech, the PDM chief said that a meeting of the alliance's steering committee had been called for tomorrow at 2pm to devise a strategy for the decisions that had been taken.