ISLAMABAD: The meeting of the opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) chaired by its chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, discussed future strategies. Opposition parties, while avoiding sit-ins in Islamabad, proposed a one-day full-fledged public meeting in Islamabad.
During the meeting, PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman insisted on resigning from the assemblies and said that we should stand with the people of the country by resigning.
On this occasion, Maulana Fazlur Rehman threatened to break away from the PDM and said that if we are not serious about sending the government home, then there is no point in gossiping.
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Yesterday, former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired a meeting of the PDM steering committee in which a consensus was reached among the opposition leaders on the long march and resignations. The steering committee made recommendations for the long march and resignations.
The PDM summit is expected to make recommendations in support of the long march and resignations today. The steering committee had unanimously decided that conventions and protest rallies would be held in all four provinces before the long march.
PDM spokesman Hafiz Hamdullah said that the recommendations of the PDM steering committee would be presented at today’s summit. Party leaders will approve the recommendations. The opposition coalition wants five years of government to be over.
