ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) did not supported JUI-F chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman’s recommendation to give resignation from the assemblies as both the parties said that they can present their case better in parliament.
JUI-F, Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakhtun Khwa -MAP (PK-MAP) have been revealed as those in favour of the decision to resign.
JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazal Ur Rehman was the one who came up with the idea of collective resignations.
PPP and PML-N maintained that they were opposing the decision to keep the present government from playing the ‘victim card’, sources revealed.
The opposition parties in their joint declaration at the All Parties Conference (APC) on Wednesday rejected the policies and governance of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government and called it a ‘huge security risk’
The APC session was summoned upon the behest of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) leader Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders Maryam Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan Peoples Party leaders Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Yousuf Raza Gillani, were among the attendees in the meeting.
Baloch National Party-Mengal did not attend the opposition huddle as it reached compromise at the 11th hour with the federal government.
The APC declared that the PTI government’s governance has become a threat to national integrity, sovereignty and interests. The declaration said that the poor are facing burnt of the series of disastrous policies, the given contemporary political situation is paving the way for a violent revolution.
The opposition parties declared that the PTI government is fulfilling the interests of foreign elements, and has become a huge security risk.
The Major political players said that they were deliberating upon the option to resign but would only consider it as the last resort.
PPP and PML-N were observed charting out plans to first protest outside and within the National Assembly against the present Federal Government.
“We can’t leave any option open for the PTI-led government,” all parties agreed in the moot.
It was decided that constant pressure would be kept upon the government in the assembly and a proper strategy would be devised to give them a “tough time,” sources claimed.
The complete transcript of the APC shows the difference of opinion and it is being claimed that only 2 or 3 points in total were agreed upon in the long and arduous exercise.
