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Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed addresses a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday. DawnNewsTV
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has asked the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) an anti-government alliance of political parties to defer its long march plan until the end of Ramazan, which will begin in the middle of April.
Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, the minister said the PDM, which had changed several decisions, should also revisit its decision to launch the long march from March 26.
However, he assured the opposition that there would be no obstacles in the way of the PDM if it continued with the same plan and unless the law was taken into hands. “We will be ready to facilitate you like we did during your protest outside the Election Commission in Islamabad,” he said, referring to the protests over prolonged delay in decision on the foreign funding case against the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.
The political maze
January 3, 2021
It is difficult to see the direction in which politics in the country is moving at the present time. In the first place, there are obvious differences within the PDM itself, although on Friday after the PDM meeting in Lahore, Maulana Fazalur Rahman announced that the Long March to Islamabad would go ahead, and that it could indeed even make its destination Rawalpindi instead. This is obviously a very significant statement, given what it points directly to. Meanwhile, within the PDM, there are reports that at least some of the rumoured differences between the PPP and the PML-N have been cleared up, although it is uncertain to what extent this is accurate. Asif Ali Zardari, who has very little to gain by offering resignations from the assemblies given that the PPP would lose its government in Sindh, has persuaded Nawaz Sharif to also follow the as-yet-unclear strategy he says he has in mind. Insiders suggest this may hover around a vote of no-conf