By Our Staff Reporter
Lahore: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Punjab President Rana Sanaullah said Tuesday that the upcoming Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally in Lahore on 13 December would be a referendum against “incapable and incompetent” rulers.
Speaking at a press conference, he said that the event would show that Lahore had woken up, after which the entire Punjab and Pakistan would have woken up, ARY News reported.
Taking a look at the ruling government, he asked how democracy would flourish if institutions were to be used for political purposes, and further questioned who had made the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) controversial and who was blackmailing its chairman. The lawmaker also alleged that he had been arrested on false and frivolous charges and had been charged in a drug case when nothing incriminating had been found against him, according to ARY News.
The time will come when the corruption watchdog will confess to the courts that these cases are politically motivated, retain and appeal to the Chief Justice to take account of these cases.
Sanaullah further declared that the PDM would also hold a public meeting in Islamabad.
He also reported that the number of participants in the PDM’s Islamabad rally would grow to more than one million when it entered the capital.
This comes in the midst of a volatile political scenario in Pakistan, with the opposition’s 11-party alliance, the PDM having organised three mammoth rallies in Gujranwala, Karachi and Balochistan as part of national agitation demanding the resignation of Imran Khan.