PDM fully united for Senate elections 2021, says Fazlur Rehman.

ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is "fully united" for the upcoming Senate elections 2021, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the chief of the Opposition-led anti-government coalition, said Sunday.

Speaking to the media alongside PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari after the two met here in Islamabad, Fazlur Rehman said the leadership meetings would be held immediately after the Senate elections and a new strategy would be worked out and clarified.

"The PDM is the only voice of the people across the country and getting rid of such rulers [incumbent government] will be a service to the people of Pakistan," the PDM and JUI-F chief said.

Clarifying that the PDM was just the name of the movement and not an electoral alliance, he said the Opposition parties were trying not to cut each other's votes in the election from a moral perspective.

"They thought that the PDM parties would damage each other's votes themselves but the PDM is united in all four provinces as well as the centre and is contesting the Senate elections.

"God willing, successful results will come out of the Senate elections," he added, noting that there was "an atmosphere of hopelessness in the ranks of the PTI government."

Fazlur Rehman added that with regard to the rampant inflation and security situation of Pakistan, the PDM was the "only voice of the people." Referring to a firing incident earlier this week, he noted that "three of our youth were martyred in...

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