ISLAMABAD: An alliance of opposition factions in Pakistan asked its lawmakers on Tuesday to submit their resignations from the national and provincial assemblies to the heads of their parties by December 31, as its top leaders pledged to fuel their campaign to bring down the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) emerged as a major political platform of various opposition forces after a multiparty conference was arranged on September 20 that decided to launch anti-government agitation and galvanize their workers and supporters all over the country.
The opposition alliance has already conducted public rallies in various Pakistani cities, and it is planning to hold another one in the eastern city of Lahore on December 13.
It held an important meeting on Tuesday to determine the alliance's future strategy before announcing its resignation move.
"All opposition lawmakers in national and provincial assemblies should send their resignations to their party leaders by December 31," said the president of the alliance, Maulana Fazlur Rehman.
He was also accompanied by Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Vice President Maryam Nawaz.
Rehman added that a PDM steering committee would hold a meeting on Wednesday to determine the nuts and bolts of the strategy and determine when to hold wheel-jam and shutter-down strikes in the country.
The committee will also determine the appropriate time to stage a long march against the government and bring the opposition activists and supporters to Islamabad.
The PDM president said the decisions taken by the committee would be announced in the upcoming public rally in Lahore, adding it would be a "historic" political event that would prove instrumental in bringing down the government.
Prime Minister Khan and his party have already dismissed the opposition strategy to resign, saying they would hold by-elections in all the vacant constituencies.
Pakistan opposition alliance asks lawmakers to submit resignations by December 31
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Pakistan opposition alliance asks lawmakers to submit resignations by December 31
- The Pakistan Democratic Alliance will flesh out its anti-government strategy on Wednesday and determine when to hold wheel-jam and shutter-down strikes in the country
- Prime Minister Imran Khan has already dismissed the opposition strategy to resign, saying he will hold by-elections in all vacant constituencies
Gunmen kill 3 Revolutionary Guards in Iranian province bordering Pakistan
- Iranian state media says attackers ambushed patrol in Sistan and Baluchistan province before fleeing
- Border region with Pakistan and Afghanistan has long seen militant and smuggling-related violence
TEHRAN: Gunmen killed three members of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan near the Pakistan border, state media reported.
The Guard members were ambushed while patrolling near the city of Lar in a mountainous area about 1,125 kilometers (700 miles) southeast of the capital Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported.
IRNA did not report whether any Guard members were injured in the attack.
The Revolutionary Guard is pursing the attackers it calls “terrorists,” but they remain at large. No group has taken responsibility for the attack, IRNA reported.
The province bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, one of the least developed in Iran, has been the site of occasional deadly clashes involving militant groups, armed drug smugglers and Iranian security forces.
In August, Iran’s security forces killed 13 militants in three separate operations in the province a week after the group killed five policemen who were on patrol.
