ISLAMABAD: An anti-government march launched by opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is on its way to Islamabad after it began in Karachi on Sunday.
The party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is leading the rally which is expected to cross more than 30 different cities and towns to reach the federal capital on March 8.
“We march for the marginalized, for the unfairly treated, for the unheard, for the voiceless,” the PPP chairman said in a video statement.
“PM [Imran Khan] asks people not to worry about price hike, unemployment, poverty and crises of gas, water and fertilizer,” he maintained while addressing a rally in Badin. “Now, the time has come for the PM to start worrying. The PPP is striving for the people to be able to decide their own economic and foreign policy.”
Bilawal continued it was time for the prime minister to resign, adding that Khan would have to step down after the PPP rally reached Islamabad.
Pakistan’s information minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said on Sunday the “leaderless and aimless” alliance of opposition parties did not pose a serious threat to the government.
Addressing the media, the minister described the opposition’s current attempt to oust the administration in Islamabad as “futile.”
He also maintained the opposition leaders were only trying to keep their parliamentary members politically engaged.
