Long march if Imran doesn't quit by Jan 31: Bilawal.

LARKANA -- The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leaders, who gathered at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh on the occasion of the 13th death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto, said that the days of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government were numbered as it was bound to collapse under its own burden.

Addressing the public gathering via video link, PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari said that opposition parties would have to 'change their mindset and 'fill jails' to increase pressure on the government.

Without naming Prime Minister Imran Khan, he said like Gen Musharraf was waiting for an opportunity to return to Pakistan, 'you [PM] will also go and your party will no more remain in government'.

Mr Zardari challenged the prime minister to go for general elections and 'you will feel the pulse of people'.

In the first appearance at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh for any Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader, Maryam Nawaz began her speech by addressing the crowd in Sindhi language as jiyala bhayero (jiyala brothers). The crowd gave her standing ovation and she thanked them in traditional Sindhi style of clasping her hands.

'The violators of the constitution, who unconstitutionally poke their nose into politics and commit corruption worth billions of rupees, are branded innocent while politicians have to face bullets, jails and character assassination through the media,' she said.

She said that the 'constitution violators' had benefited from the mistakes committed by politicians in the past. But they realised the mistakes leading to emergence of pro-people governments one of which completed its term.

PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said that the days of darkness were about to end and asked the audience to pledge that they would participate in the PDM's long march.

If more time was granted to the PTI government, it would sink the country's boat, he said and added that like Gen Musharraf, Imran Khan's name would also be erased from history.

The PPP chairman declared that if Imran Khan didn't quit as prime minister until Jan 31, the PDM would start its long march on Islamabad.

This was the first public gathering in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh to be addressed by leaders of various political...