Pakistan’s opposition party, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), demanded on Wednesday that the military’s silence on the topic of an alleged foreign plot in the no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan casts doubt on the military’s claim of neutrality.
Following his presidency of a PDM meeting with PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif, opposition alliance president, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, told a press conference that if the Supreme Court rules against them, they have the right to go before the people’s court.
Maulana reported that besides Sharif and him, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had pushed military representatives present at the NSC meeting on March 31 to come out and express their opinion.
The PDM leader said they would never accept the illegitimate ruling of the deputy speaker, adding that the combined opposition was working to prevent anarchy in the nation. If Pakistan’s PTI went to war, they could do it as well. It encouraged those who had renounced the Constitution, he argued, because of the Supreme Court’s delay in considering the issue.
On Thursday, Maulana Fazl called on the people to commemorate Friday (tomorrow) as Constitution Day by preaching to the congregations in their respective places of worship against the PTI government’s alleged “abrogation” of the country’s founding document.
He said that the PTI and its members were inciting other parties’ workers to violence in order to sow chaos across the country. He urged the people to speak out against the PTI government’s actions.
On April 3, Qasim Suri’s contentious judgement in the National Assembly sparked a constitutional crisis in Pakistan, which has gotten worse since the prime minister dissolved parliament, the Maulana stated. It is up to the incoming administration to declare the poll timetable, according to the PDM chair, who added that there will be no free and fair elections under the PTI.
It was not a joke, he insisted, to call the country’s top officials traitors, but an insult to the people who elected them.
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