Pakistan Inflation Protest
Pak opposition alliance PDM to hit the streets against Imran Khan govt's anti-people policies, inflation
Islamabad/IBNS: Pakistan's multi-party opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), has decided to hold a country-wide protest and a long march towards the capital, Islamabad, against the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government's "anti-people policies" and inflation.
Issuing a statement on Saturday following a virtual meeting of the PDM, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and the alliance's secretary general Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the protest rallies will be held in all the provincial capitals.
According to the statement, a protest will be held in Karachi on Nov 13, followed by one in Quetta on Nov 17 and in Peshawar on Nov 20, and the final rally will be taken out in Lahore, from where protesters would march towards the federal capital.
"This movement will end only after sending Imran Khan packing. This is a movement to rid [Pakistan] of Imran Khan," the statement read.
File image of Pak PM Imran Khan by World Economic Forum via Flickr/Wikimedia Creative Commons
Meanwhile, rejecting the sharp hike in the prices of electricity, gas, petrol, wheat flour, ghee, sugar, medicines and other essential commodities, the PDM has demanded that the increased prices of those essential commodities be reversed.
"The actual reason behind inflation is the historic corruption by Imran Khan's government," according to the statement.
"The nation is unwilling to bear this government even for a minute, which has inflicted back-breaking inflation on the people," Abbasi said in the statement.
The statement read that the opposition alliance had also rejected the National Accountability Ordinance, election reforms, electronic voting machines, i-voting, deeming that they were based on mala fide intention.
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