Pakistan: PPP anti-government march to reach Islamabad in 10 days after crossing 34 cities

Karachi: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will start its long march to Islamabad from Karachi on February 27 against the federal government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will lead the long march, which will kick off from the Mausoleum of the founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi on Sunday at 10am.

The PPP has announced that the march will take 10 days and cross 34 different cities and towns to reach Islamabad. The march after crossing Sindh is expected to enter Punjab on March 3.

On the way to Islamabad, Bilawal will address participants of the march and other supporters of the PPP at Nasir Bagh of Lahore on March 6. The next day the march will reach the famous Liaquat Bagh of Rawalpindi.

On March 8, the march will reach its final destination i.e. the federal capital city Islamabad.

While addressing a meeting of the lawmakers of the PPP belonging to Sindh, Bilawal said that his party had planned the march keeping in view the democratic principles.

He said his party believed that the change of government should take place only through the democratic method of tabling the no-confidence motion as enshrined in the Constitution.

Sindh Information and Labour Minister, Saeed Ghani, said the activists belonging to the PPP were fully ready and ambitious to take part in the march.

He said that thousands of motor vehicles would be part of the march for going to Islamabad.

Ghani said the PPP had planned the march so that the countrymen shouldn’t face the situation of unprecedented hike in the prices of essential items, petroleum products, medicines, and shortfall of natural gas during winters.

He said that reception camps would be established at over 50 different spots on the way all across the country to welcome the participants.

The PPP on Friday took out a big rally from Bilawal House to Mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam in Karachi in the run-up to the march.