Resign by Jan 31st or face long march, PDM warns PM.

KARACHI/LARKANA -- Many leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an 11-party alliance of the Opposition parties formed this year to send the government packing, on Sunday gathered in Larkana to join the 13th death anniversary of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

All the top PDM leaders while addressing a public gathering lashed out at the government's policies and demanded Prime Minister Imran Khan to resign by January 31st or prepared for the long-march towards Islamabad. Earlier, the PDM leaders had announced that they would submit resignations from the assemblies as they would reach the federal capital to get rid of the present government.

Former president and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari addressed the rally virtually. He challenged the government to hold elections and see who the people stand behind. A government of your choosing will come,' he said.

The former president said that he had removed Musharraf from parliament. 'What is Imran Khan, in comparison?' he asked. 'We can remove Imran Khan Niazi. We just need to change our approach,' he said. 'We must fill up the jails and we are ready to do that,' Zardari said.

He said that December 27 is a day of 'red salute' because Benazir had passed away on this day. She had left the message for her party to keep fighting for the country, Zardari said.

He said the PTI-led government had failed to run the country and would remain so. Zardari criticised PM Imran Khan saying that these are not the people who run a country but in fact they are the ones who run a cricket team. The former president said that he had joined his political rivals in order to complete the Constitution but now the country's exports had fallen and the dollar had seen a steep rise.

He said in the PPP tenure, prices of commodities were low. 'We ran the country carefully, like raising a child,' he added. Zardari said that when the rule ended and the PML-N came into power 'they were welcomed'. He said he wishes to see all political parties on the same page.

'I want to ask you not to worry so much; they have little time left. They will fall due to their own weight,' the PPP leader said. He said while he was not afraid of jails, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was running a 'black market' and issuing warrants for businessmen. 'I said in the assembly on the first day, run the country or run NAB,' Zardari said. The PPP did not have a single political prisoner during its government, he claimed.

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