PML-N marks Black Day in Rawalpindi
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Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday staged a protest outside Rawalpindi Press Club as it observed a Black Day to mark the military coup in 1999 and the victimisation of opposition by the government.
The Rawalpindi division leaders joined the protest however the central leadership remained absent. The protest was led by Ex-MNA and PML Divisional President Malik Abrar.
While addressing the protesters, the Former Rawalpindi Mayor Sardar Naseem expressed that it was the time for the government to go and they would make it happen with the struggle of the workers.
He asserted that Rawalpindi was a fortress of PML-N and it was a city that belonged to Nawaz Sharif.
Further, ex-minister Sheikh Aftab said that Imran Khan had chanted slogans of bringing change in the country. However, he commented, the only change was that everything in the country had become expensive.
Aftab said that Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif were being victimised by the government because they put the country on the track of development, laid roads, and started power generation projects. The former lawmaker said that the national exchequer would get empty if Saudi Arabia, China, and Qatar withdraw their money.
Aftab vowed that the struggle would continue till they get rid of the incumbent government.
He asserted that the government’s feet would get shaken if it permitted Maryam Nawaz Sharif to hold a public meeting.
Moreover, PML-N leader Chaudhry Danyal charged the participants by chanting anti-government slogans fervently. He said that the flag of Nawaz Sharif would wave once again in Rawalpindi.
Ex-MNA Shakeel Awaan said that former dictator Pervez Musharraf ambushed a progressing Pakistan on October 12, 1999. He said that Nawaz gave them the right to live by testing the atomic bomb.
Awan said that they would oust Imran Khan from the PM House in the same way they ousted the military dictator.
A Former PML-N Ticket Holder Sajjad Khan stated in his address that the destruction of the government had begun from Rawalpindi and that the protest by the party workers was just the first drop of rain.
He said that the current government wanted to rule the country by framing cases on every opposition member.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 13th, 2020.