Islamabad, March 16 (UNI) The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain ‘appealed’ to the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the opposition parties to show restraint and urged them to cancel their planned public meetings at D-Chowk in the larger national interest, Dawn reported on Wednesday.
The PML-Q president whose party is a key ally of the PTI at the Centre and in Punjab, made the appeal amid mounting fears of confrontation and violence after both sides gave calls to their workers to converge at the historic D-Chowk in Islamabad to demonstrate their public power ahead of the crucial vote on the no-confidence resolution against Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Shujaat in particular targeted the ruling PTI, stating that it was not job of the government to hold public meetings and rallies.
While the ruling PTI has claimed that it will bring one million people at D-Chowk on March 27 ?to express solidarity with the prime minister? in the wake of the opposition’s no-trust move, the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) has also given a call to its workers and the public to begin their long march towards Islamabad on March 23 on Pakistan Day to stage a possible sit-in to counter the government’s alleged attempt to forcibly stop lawmakers from entering the Parliament House to cast vote on the no-trust motion.
PDM President Maulana Fazlur Rehman, however, on Tuesday anno?unced a slight change in their plan and issued directives to the workers of the member parties to enter the capital on the evening of Friday (March 25) instead of March 24.
