National News Desk
Islamabad: Imran Khan government filed a case against the central leadership of the PDM for causing irreparable damage to the national asset after the Minar-e-Pakistan jalsa on Sunday.
PDM held rallies to oust the Tehreek-e-Insaf government of Pakistan by 31 January. However, Imran Khan is unlikely to step down given the fact that still majority in Pakitan support him.
According to Geo News, the PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz and the PML-N leaders Khawaja Saad Rafique, Ahsan Iqbal and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi have been named in the event. Other opposition leaders, including Rana Sanaullah and Marriyum Aurangzeb, were also identified.
This comes after the PDM called for the federal government to step down by January 31. The FIR maintains that the 11-party coalition caused irreparable damage” to the sanctity of the [Minar-e-Pakistan] national heritage, which includes 15 counts of infringements.
“The PDM administration broke the gate and fences of the Greater Iqbal Park to enter,” the FIR read. It was further reported that a day earlier, two cases were registered for “against the PDM’s Lahore jalsa for forcibly entering the Greater Iqbal Park in Lahore and holding a public rally.”
Both cases were registered at the Larri Adda police station on the complaint of security staff, Geo News further reported adding that the FIR stated that “the PDM leadership and workers broke locks and forcibly entered the park to make arrangements for a public gathering.”
In an article titled ‘The military seeds of Pakistan’s discontent’, written by Salman Rafi Sheikh, mentioned that a ‘creeping coup’ has allowed Pakistan’s military to control and manipulate government “without firing a shot or rolling a tank.”
However, army and independent voices in Pakistan don’t believe in what people like Salman Rafi Sheikh say.
“Khan’s facilitated “creeping coup” is becoming increasingly more apparent in the international eye…Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led regime often and readily suppresses anti-government and anti-military dissent, acting similar to previous repressive military dictatorships under the guise of democracy, Sheikh wrote.
Pakistani Muslim League (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz in her address at Minar-i-Pakistan on Sunday urged supporters to answer the call for a march to Islamabad, while Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari formally announced that PDM is now headed to the capital.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had slammed the Imran Khan government during the sixth Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally, saying that the country is suffering because of the “fake, incompetent and illegitimate government.”
However, independent analysts in Pakistan and abroad believe Imran Khan is enjoying massive support of masses as well as military and that there was no threat to his government. Rather, Iran has emerged even more stronger following flop shows by the opposition parties whom majority of people rejected in General Elections ahead in 2018.