KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party on Tuesday announced to organise a programme at Teen Talwar, Clifton, on Friday night to celebrate the ouster of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s government in the country as a result of ‘a democratic and constitutional struggle’.

At a press conference, Information Minister Saeed Ghani, who is also PPP Karachi Division President, said that the party’s city chapter would organise a public meeting titled “Jashan-e-Nijaat” at Teen Talwar on Friday at 9pm to celebrate the end of the PTI’s selected regime in the country.

He welcomed that the Pakistani currency had gained strength against US dollar, while trading at Pakistan Stock Exchange became stable as an immediate aftermath of the downfall of the PTI’s regime.

The information minister also welcomed the decision of the new government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif to increase the minimum monthly wage of labourers to Rs25,000 while recalling that Sindh in its last budget had already made such an announcement.

He recalled that PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari during the party’s long march from Karachi to Islamabad that started on Feb 27 had made his plan clear to move the no-trust motion against former PM Imran Khan.

Saeed Ghani said that Imran Khan in his meetings with the leaders of Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan and Balochistan Awami Party after submission of the no-confidence motion against him had not talked about receiving any threatening letter about a foreign conspiracy against his government.

He said that Imran Khan at present considered all the important national institutions, including political parties except PTI, judiciary, judges, military, and media that didn’t support him, as traitors as he (Imran Khan) considered himself as the only patriotic citizen in the country.

“Imran Khan with his sheer fascist tendency endangered the entire system of the state of Pakistan to preserve his own rule in the country as he used the religious card for the same vicious purpose,” he added.

To a question, the information minister said the recently signed accord between the PPP and MQM-P didn’t stand for offering the provincial ministries and the office of Sindh Governor to Muttahida, but it was their (PPP) desire that MQM should join the provincial government and work with them.

To another question, he said that no matter whether a protest was earlier organised on the appeal of former PM in Karachi and later Imran Khan had decided to address a public meeting in the city, but the PTI had to face a crushing defeat in the next general elections in the country.

He demanded that action should be initiated under Article-6 of the Constitution against Imran Khan, President Arif Alvi, PTI’s former federal ministers, speaker, and deputy speaker of the National Assembly for abrogating the Constitution.

The PPP city chief also predicted that soon the disgruntled elements belonging to PTI would start joining the PPP as predicted by him before tabling of the no-confidence motion.

Published in Dawn, April 13th, 2022