PDM chief announces 'Mehangai March' on March 23

Islamabad: Pakistan Democratic Movement president Maulana Fazalur Rehman on Tuesday announced that the opposition would hold "Mehangai March" on March 23 against the PTI government.  

He said the Opposition would not let the parliamentray system abolished, adding mehangai march would prove last nail in the coffin of the PTI government.

Talking to reporters, JUI-F chief said no contact had been established with PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari regarding anti-inflation march, but plan is very much intact.

He said the PDM rejected the Finance Bill 2021 overight.

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 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."

He said the PDM had rejected the recently passed Finance (Supplementary) Bill, generally known as the "mini-budget", and called for it to be withdrawn.

Commenting on the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Amendment Bill, which was also recently passed by the National Assembly, he lamented the fact that the country's institutions were being handed over to international financial institutions.

He said the opposition parties valued the country's freedom and would not allow the government to trade it.

Maulana Fazalur Rehman said inflation had broken the backs of the country's citizens and trapped the nation in a place where there was no possibility of escape. Rehman claimed that the government was not cognisant of the people's screams for help.