The Pakistan Peoples Party on Wednesday announced that it would stage a “massive power show” in the metropolis on Oct 18 from the platform of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) saying the event would be the “beginning of the end” for the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government.
The announcement came after the meeting of the PPP’s executive committee chaired by president of the party’s Sindh chapter Nisar Khuhro here at the Chief Minister House.
Briefing the media after the meeting, he said that Karachi would host the second public meeting of the PDM on Oct 18.
The party will host PDM leaders on the 13th death anniversary of victims of Karsaz blasts
The day, he said, would mark the death anniversary of more than 200 victims of the twin Karsaz blasts at the homecoming procession of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.
Rally to be held at sprawling Bagh-i-Jinnah
“The October 18 rally would be held at Bagh-i-Jinnah adjacent to Quaid’s mausoleum,” he said. “The federal government has already started panicking and the October 18 rally will lead to its fall.”
Mr Khuhro said that people from all over Sindh would attend the rally, which would be addressed by PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and other opposition leaders.
He expressed the hope that the people of Karachi and the rest of Sindh would prove their loyalty to reject the “selected government”.
The PPP leader said the Wednesday meeting also demanded that the federal government withdraw the presidential ordinance aimed at annexing a part of Sindh by taking control of the twin islands off Karachi’s coast.
He said the government was behaving like a dictator and it was high time to send it packing.
