PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party will hold province-wide protest demonstrations against the federal government for allowing former dictator Pervez Musharraf to go abroad.

This was announced during a protest rally held at Bakhsi Pull area here on Saturday. Party’s provincial general secretary Mohammad Humayun Khan led the rally.

Several senior leaders, including provincial finance secretary Farzand Ali Khan and Peoples Lawyers Forum president Mohammad Akbar Khan, also spoke on the occasion and said that the government’s decision to allow Musharraf go abroad had exposed the real face of Nawaz Sharif and other leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

Asks office-bearers to prepare for rallies across KP

Mr Humayun said that the PML-N leadership had badly failed to resist the former military dictator and instead facilitated him to go abroad. He accused Nawaz Sharif of victimising PPP leaders whenever he (Nawaz) got power, but the PPP leaders always obeyed the court orders and faced trials and tribulations for no reasons.

The PPP leader said that Musharraf’s exit was the result of a ‘muk moka’ of PML-N and the former dictator. He said that his party would hold protest demonstrations across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to expose the real face of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his cabinet members.

“Many federal ministers had announced to step down if Musharraf was allowed to go abroad,” he recalled and asked the ministers to resign now.

The PPP leader advised the PML-N leaders to think before speaking otherwise they would have to face the public wrath. PPP, he said, would hold rallies to record their protest as Musharraf had no right to go abroad at a time when he was facing many cases in different courts.

Mr Humayun asked the office-bearers of different wings of PPP to announce schedule for protest rallies to be addressed by the provincial leaders.

Akbar Khan advocate also condemned the PML-N leadership for, what he said, its habit of making deals for personal gains. He claimed that Nawaz Sharif had himself gone abroad for 10 years under an agreement and he had never worked seriously for strengthening of democracy in the country.

Published in Dawn, March 20th, 2016