‘PPP’s long march a referendum against PTI govt’

Former chief minister of Balochistan and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Balochistan chapter leader Nawab Sanaullah Zehri has said that his party’s long march towards Islamabad – dubbed the Awami Long March – would prove to be a referendum against the undemocratic setup ruling the country.

The former chief minister met with the party workers in Karachi airport upon his return from abroad.

He said that the present government would not be spared by the public anger while terming the long march launched by PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in Karachi against the “selected government” a democratic attack. He claimed that the movement would be able to get rid of the federal government once it reached Islamabad.

Zehri further said that party workers of PPP from Balochistan and Sindh would participate in the movement in large numbers, adding that “it is over for the government now”. “The rulers have made Pakistan a slave of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by destroying the country’s economy,” he said. Instead of job opportunities, the people were made unemployed, he said. Unemployment had resulted in multiple suicides across Pakistan because inflation is at its peak, he said.

“Everything in the country had been taken away from the people,” he said, and added, “Businessmen, farmers, labourers, landowners, and people from all walks of life were miserable.”

He stressed that it was the right time for people to join the public movement of the PPP to send the unsuccessful group packing.

Zehri said that PPP was a public party whose roots were getting deeper among the masses. “It is the representative of people of all classes of the country which has always preserved the interests of everyone,” he added. He concluded by saying that the solution to all the problems was in the rise of PPP’s government in the country.