SUKKUR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Sindh general secretary Maulana Rashid Mahmood Soomro on Sunday asked party workers to get ready for the ‘court arrest’ phase of the ongoing movement against Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government. “Under the ‘Plan-C’ of the movement, the leadership is going to ask its workers to court arrest,” he announced while addressing participants in a sit-in at Sukkur toll plaza, where JUI-F workers kept the National Highway blocked for several hours under the movement’s ‘Plan-B’.

Long queues of inter-city passenger and cargo vehicles, as well as cars and motorcycles were seen stuck up along both sides of the highway during the course of the sit-in.

Maulana Soomro told party workers to be prepared for incarceration. “Our committed workers are even ready to lay down their lives for the cause,” he said, and reiterated his party’s resolve that the movement would continue until the [Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf] government was dislodged. He expressed his confidence that PM Imran Khan would have to step down due to mounting pressure.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2019