LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the Pakistan Awami Tehreek and the Awami Muslim League have announced to mark September 3 (Saturday) as joint protest day against the government.
PAT Chairman Tahirul Qadri, PTI Secretary General Jahangir Tareen and AML President Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said that their protest movement will continue till the end of Nawaz Sharif rule over the country.
“All Opposition parties now have no other option but to go to the masses,” they said.
The PTI delegation compromising of Jahangir Tareen, Ch Sarwar, Mehmoodur Rasheed, Ijaz Chaudhry, Shoaib Siddiqui and AML President Sheikh Rashid met with Qadri at PAT’s head office in Model Town.
It was second visit of PTI’s senior leaders to Model Town within three days. PTI Chairman Imran Khan also made two contacts with PAT’s Qadri in past two days. PTI is holding an Accountability March in Lahore and PAT is organising Qisas Rally in Rawalpindi on September 3.
The leaders said that the government was not ready for fair investigation of Panama Leaks issue and saving the prime minister and his family’s skin whose names were mentioned in the leaks. Similarly the families of Model Town victims were still waiting justice, they said.
“We will fully participate in each other’s’ protests on Saturday,” said the leaders.
The political leaders had unanimity of views and were united against the Sharifs who according to him were looting country’s resources and behaving like kings. Sheikh Rashid said that the PTI and PAT again made alliance and other opposition parties will be approached to make a wider alliance against the ‘corrupt rulers’.
On the other hand, Punjab Assembly’s Opposition Leader Mehmoodur Rasheed made contacts with leaders of PPP, Jamaat-e-Islami, Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen, PML-Q and other parties and invited them to join the accountability march.
Earlier, PTI’s Ijaz Chaudhry reviewed the arrangements of the march and claimed thousands of people will attend it. He said that Imran Khan will address participants of the march at Shahdrah, Bhatii Gate, Nasir Bagh, High Court Chowk and Faisal Chowk.
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