JUI-F threatens road blockades if marchers stopped.

PESHAWAR -- As major opposition parties, including Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Pakistan Peoples Party and Awami National Party, have decided to join the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl's Oct 27 Azadi March in Islamabad, the government has formed a ministerial committee to propose response to possible mischief from protesters.

The decision was made during a multiparty conference at the JUI-F provincial secretariat on Saturday.

Besides others, Qaumi Watan Party, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party and other political groups also attended the event, where JUI-F provincial chief Maulana Attaur Rehman was in the chair.

The participants finalised a joint strategy for the Azadi March and decided that the processions from southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would proceed to Islamabad via Kohat-Fateh Jang Road on Oct 31, while marchers from Peshawar, Malakand, Mardan and Hazara divisions will enter Punjab via the Grand Trunk Road.

Mr Rehman said the provincial leaders of ANP, JUI-F, PML-N, PPP, QWP and their political allies would lead processions to the federal capital.

Govt forms ministerial body for response to possible mischief on Oct 31

He said representatives of lawyers, traders, doctors and other segments of the society would also join the main rally.

The JUI-F leader said all arrangements for the march had been made.

He said political parties would take out rallies and hold protest demonstrations across the province on Oct 27 to express solidarity with the people of India-occupied Kashmir.

Mr Rehman said political parties 'fully' supported the Azadi March and they were mobilising their workers for the anti-government movement.

Surprisingly, the JUI-F hasn't invited its electoral ally, Jamaat-i-Islami, which is part of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, to take part in the Azadi March.

A senior JI leader confirmed that his party hadn't been invited to join the Oct 31 protest.

He said his party wasn't interested to join the march.

Mr Rehman said if the government blocked the GT Road and other main highways, then the workers of political parties would block the provincial highways and district roads.

'Workers have been directed to block roads across the province if they are stopped from proceeding to Islamabad,' he said.

The conference adopted a joint declaration demanding the resignation of the government, electoral reforms, and immediate general elections in the country.

It also said political parties would cooperate with each other for the success of...

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