ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) leadership has said that the Transparency International (TI) report has exposed the "artificial honesty" of the PTI-led government. Sharing the observations of the PDM leadership here on Tuesday, PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said, "Transparency International has shown a mirror of 'artificial honesty' to the PTI government."
He said that the PDM march would be taken out on March 23 at all costs, sending the existing government house was a constitutional and Sharia obligation. He said that the government has already proved to be the most corrupt, unsuccessful and incompetent in the history of the country.
Addressing a press conference after the meeting, Maulana Fazal said that the government should be ashamed that the country has slipped from 117th to 140th in TI's Corruption Perceptions Index, "but still the government is the next common man." Wants to rig elections. Support machines." However, he said people have woken up to their rigging plans and they will be thrown out of the corridors of power.
The PDM meeting also rejected the government's request to reschedule the long march of 23 March and decided to go ahead with the anti-inflation protest on the occasion of Pakistan Day. He said there was no question of a clash of timings in the Pakistan Day Parade on 23 March and the Long March. "The Pakistan Day parade ends in the morning, while we will reach Islamabad after the Zuhr prayers," he said.
Besides this, the PDM chief also questioned why the government had planned the OIC session at a time when the opposition had already announced a long march. The PDM unanimously decided against rescheduling the 23 March Long March and it was decided that the PPP should also be allowed to participate in the march if its leadership so decides.
Responding to a question, he said that after the announcement of the 23 March Long March, he would focus on all the opposition parties and civil society to take part in the Long March. "But we are confident that we will not open any front against any other opposition party," he said.
PMLN President Shahbaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and Ahsan Iqbal attended the PDM meeting via video link. Shaheed Khaqan Abbasi, Awais Noorani, Abdul Malik of National Party, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, Maryam Aurangzeb, Dr. Tariq Fazal Chowdhury, Hafiz Hamdulla and others were also present.
Fazlur Rehman said that no final word can be said on the option of no-confidence motion unless all the opposition parties are on one page on it. However, during the meeting, the PDM chief suggested that there would be no need for a no-confidence motion if the allies of the government joined the opposition. Fazlur Rehman was of the view that Prime Minister Imran Khan was found guilty in the foreign funding case after hiding 22 accounts. "When a person who does not get basic salary has been disqualified and security is being given to the person who is hiding 22 accounts, how can there be justice," he said.
He said that the PDM leadership demands that the ECP hears the foreign funding case on a day-to-day basis, disqualifies Imran Khan and imposes sanctions on his party. He said that not only the entire family but the entire party is corrupt and they are the product of corruption while illegitimate resources have given birth to them. “A government which comes to power because of the support of some other people cannot be said to be representative of the people,” he said.
Fazlur Rehman said that the PDM leadership has decided that it will not accept the conduct of general elections with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) as it was the name of another RTS. He added that the PDM also feels that the form of the presidential system, which has been called the "alien proposal", has always been a form of dictatorship in the country whether it is in the form of Sikandar Mirza, Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Ziaul Haq or Pervez Musharraf. be in "It seems that this proposal is a conspiracy to destroy the Constitution," he said.
Fazlur Rehman said that the PDM had promised that it would not allow the illegal proposal of the presidential system to be carried out in the country. "We fought for the survival of the country in the past and will continue to make efforts to protect the Constitution," he said.
He said the country was partitioned even as a presidential system with black history could never be acceptable to him. He said that the PDM observed that the agriculture sector has been the backbone of the country's economy, but for the first time in history, the present government has created a crisis of fertilizers.
He said that the rights of Balochistan and Sindh provinces and peoples should be recognized whether they are related to islands or Reko Dik mines. "We also demand that the much-discussed Reko Diq agreement should also be made public," he said.
Such tendencies of the people created a sense of deprivation and were highly detrimental to national unity.
Fazlur Rehman said that with the merger of FATA with KP, it was promised that Rs 100 billion would be spent annually on tribal areas in the next 10 years, but in the last four years they have been given a little over Rs 60 billion . "The people of FATA have been deceived," he said.
Fazlur Rehman said that it was the voice of the PDM that Imran Khan and Usman Buzdar
He should resign over the Murri tragedy. "It is not enough that action should be taken only against some government officials, but Imran Khan and Usman Buzdar should be blamed and they should resign," he said. They observed that snowfall was an annual occurrence but when the Murri tragedy happened the whole system was asleep.
He said that the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has been given into economic slavery of the IMF and the country is being colonised, adding that the PDM will not allow any compromise on the sovereignty of the country.
He said that inflation and inflation have broken the back of the poor, while the government is unable to hear the cries of the people and the country is in trouble. "The rulers who cannot meet the economic needs of the people have no right to rule the country," he said.
Before the meeting began, PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had said that the PTI-led government had "lost its moral position," adding that even the government's allies were hesitant to cooperate due to PTI's "anti-people policies". are doing. The JUI chief said the opposition should hold serious talks with all government allies and persuade them to explain their stand against the government. If all the allies support the opposition in the House, there will be no need for a no-confidence motion,” he said.
Meanwhile, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farooq Habib said on Tuesday that the multi-party opposition coalition (PDM) could not develop a consensus on a point since its inception.
"PDM is a dead horse, it tries unsuccessfully to rebuild the movement after every one or two months," he said in response to the PDM meeting held here. He said that the PDM has no work to do, so he arranged a meeting every month. Farooq said the government has no problem with PDM [political] modeling shows and cat walks. He asked the PDM leaders why they took a U-turn on the decision of mass resignation from Parliament.
He took a jibe at JUIF chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and called him the 12th player of Pakistan politics who ruined everything to fulfill his own wishes. He said that since 2018 his wishes seem to be dying. He said the JUIF chief should be held accountable for foreign funding to his party.
Those who were conspiring against the democratic system will never succeed, he said, adding that the whole country is watching who is pursuing the enemy's agenda. He said that the Joint Services Pakistan Day Parade on 23 March and the participation of high level representatives by the friendly countries always attack the enemy. Commenting on the use of Electronic Voting Machines, Farooq said that it will ensure transparency in conducting elections in a fair and transparent manner.