Pakistan Opposition alliance PDM to stage its remaining rally ...

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LAHORE: Pakistan's Opposition alliance on Sunday held its last anti-government rally in Lahore regardless of a ban on the gathering of more than 300 americans due to an increase in COVID-19 instances throughout the country, with appropriate coalition leaders asserting a protracted march to Islamabad to force major Minister Imran Khan to resign.

Addressing the rally held at Lahore's Minar-e-Pakistan via video link, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo Nawaz Sharif once again lashed out on the defense force, accusing them of being involved in political matters.

"cease political engineering factories in corporations," said the 70-12 months-historic three-time former major minister.

He has repeatedly blamed army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and secret agent agency ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed for Pakistan's present circumstance.

"they say, do not take names? inform me, what should we do? Is Imran Khan by myself answerable for the drawback the country is in?" Sharif requested.

Sharif, who's entangled in a few corruption cases, has been in London due to the fact November remaining yr after the Lahore excessive court docket granted him permission to go abroad for four weeks for treating the coronary heart ailment and an immune device disease.

Pakistan's effective army has denied meddling in politics.

prime Minister Khan also denies that the military helped him win the election in 2018.

"My crime is that I talk the certainty," Sharif talked about, adding that he changed into fighting for the people.

He stated that his "narrative" turned into the identical as Quaid-i-Azam's, regarding Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

His daughter and PML-N vice chairman Maryam Nawaz launched a frontal attack on ISI and judiciary for ousting her father and imposing 'inept and incompetent' prime minister on the nation.

"Former chief justice Asif Saeed Khosa had requested Imran Khan (in 2016) to carry his petition involving Panama Papers and then ousted Nawaz Sharif (in 2017) in response to an iqama (work let) via a set suit," 46-yr-historical Maryam noted, referring to Sharif's disqualification as leading Minister in 2017 through the Supreme court within the Panama Papers case.

Three corruption circumstances - Avenfield properties, Flagship investment and Al-Azizia steel mills - had been registered in opposition t the Sharif family unit through the anti-corruption physique in 2017 following a judgment by the Supreme court that disqualified him.

In her speech, Maryam named two former ISI chiefs -- Gen Shuja Pasha and Gen Zaheerul Islam -- for launching Khan in 2011 and organising his 2014 Islamabad sit-in to oust her father.

"Former ISI chief Gen Pasha launched Imran Khan in October 2011 at a rally in Minar-i-Pakistan and former ISI chief Zaheerul Islam subsidized Imran's Islamabad take a seat-in in opposition t the elected govt of Nawaz Sharif in 2014," she talked about.

Maryam additionally claimed that a retired ISI Colonel is controlling Pakistan's decrease and upper homes.

"In Islamabad, everybody knows that a retired ISI Colonel is running the Parliament (national meeting) and Senate," she alleged.

Maryam also wondered why no motion against Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa, the chairman China-Pakistan financial corridor (CPEC), has been taken as yet for making billions and developing a famous pizza chain.

She talked about the institutions should chorus from interfering in politics.

"Imran Khan is barely attracted to saving his job through serving his masters. This obedient Khan will have to go now," she stated.

Terming Imran Khan a 'Pharoah', she mentioned this selected premier has develop into a legal responsibility and even people who introduced him to vigour are involved.

"The selectors now have realised how much incompetent and inept this man is. The time has come to dispose of him," she talked about.

Maryam advised supporters to answer the call for a march to Islamabad, while Pakistan americans's celebration Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari formally announced that the stream is now headed to Islamabad.

Jamiat Ulema Islam leader and PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said the march will take vicinity late January or early February.

prior, a couple of worker's of the coalition events reached Minar-i-Pakistan.

They broke the locks of its leading gate, placed chairs and put in lights for the much-hyped vigor exhibit of the Opposition.

PDM's Minar-i-Pakistan public meeting became the remaining one in its first phase of rallies that had begun over two months ago.

The alliance has announced that all Opposition events will resign from the national and provincial assemblies to pressure the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf govt to grasp fresh elections.

earlier, Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar had asked the PDM to extend its rally in gentle of 'terror possibility indicators' and the coronavirus situation.

special Assistant to the executive Minister on tips Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan mentioned in a tweet the govt had intelligence reviews that there turned into a danger to the PDM rally.

"If any untoward incident takes place on the PDM rally, the Opposition parties will be liable," she warned.

Police in Lahore had booked greater than 3,000 worker's of the PML-N for violating COVID-19 guidelines all through this week's conferences held here through Maryam, he mentioned.

The PDM has been shaped in opposition t the Pakistan army's interference in politics and setting up "puppet" major Minister Khan through a manipulated election.