PPP not to join Fazlur Rehman’s Islamabad march but will provide ‘moral support’, says Bilawal – Pakistan

PPP President Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said Wednesday that his party will not join the long anti-government march that Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman announced to start, but promised provide "moral and political support".

Bilawal, while talking to reporters in Jamshoro, said that PPP has had a "clear and consistent policy regarding dharna politics in Islamabad. "

"Whether it was a sit-in by Tahirul Qadri, Imran Khan or Tehreek-i-Labbaik; we were in opposition when [those sit-ins] it took place but we never joined them, "he said.

"We support Maulana Fazlur Rehman's policy and the problems it poses. We provide moral support, political support for your initiative. [but] strategically, we don't see each other face to face. "

Bilawal announced that he will tour the country as part of his mass contact campaign and raise the same problems as Rehman.

"While Rehman will be in Islamabad, I will go all over the country and our narration will be the same, that is, this puppet, incapable prime minister, who has been imposed on us by fraud, who has ruined our economy, which has weakened our position of national security on each issue, including Kashmir […] he will have to go home, "said the PPP chief.

The head of the JUI-F, last month, had announced that his party had planned a long "decisive" march aimed at overthrowing the current "false government" in October. He had warned the government not to make any effort to interrupt his planned march and expressed the hope that people from all walks of life and across the country will arrive in Islamabad to participate in what he called an "Azadi March" to free to the country of the current "incompetent and illegitimate government."

He had said that his party was in contact with the leaders of the opposition parties to join.