ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties come together to devise an anti-government strategy at an All Parties Conference hosted by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in Islamabad.
PPP’s Bilawal and delegations of the PML-N — including party president Shehbaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz — and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman arrived at the venue, with other leaders joining over the past hour. PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and PPP chairman Asif Ali Zardari also addressed the APC via video link.
On the occasion, Bilawal urged the opposition to unite and launch a movement similar to the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD) in the past, saying that they will fight till the last breath.
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The PPP Chairperson demanded that the opposition be given a level-playing field — not only in politics and media but in parliament as well. “If the people’s elected representatives cannot even speak in parliament, what hope will the nation have?” he asked.
Bilawal hailed the PML-N founder for giving a comprehensive speech and said, “As Nawaz Sharif has summed it all up that the failure of a democratic system is the failure of the society.”
Addressing the joint conference, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif said that the dictatorships in the country’s history had not just destroyed democracy but also the judiciary.
“Remember when a selected government came into power and the selected prime minister promised the nation that the discrepancy in the elections, the disappearance of the RTS system, and the pre-engineering of election results would be investigated,” he added.
The PML-N president claimed that the committee constituted in this regard had not made even an inch of progress. “The government alleges that the opposition did not cooperate. I am ready for a probe,” he added.
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