LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday announced that it would launch nationwide protest rallies in the first phase and later on a long march to remove Yousuf Raza Gilani from his position of prime minister.
The party will hold protest-rallies and demonstrations in the Punjab, led by the party’s central leadership in different cities before the Long March
Announcing its schedule of protests to remove Gilani, the PML-N said that rallies would be held in Taxila on May 4, which would be addressed by Nawaz Sharif, in Gujranwala on May 7, in Bahawalpur and Sargodha on May 8 , Rawalpindi and Gilani’s hometown Multan on May 10, Sialkot on May 11, and finally Gujrat on May 12.
President PML-N, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has started contacting the party’s political leaders to make the movement more successful.
According to PML-N, the last protest-rally of the Punjab will be held in Lahore.
The schedule of the rallies in provinces other than Punjab will be finalized after consultation with the respective offices of the party.
The party however did not give a date for the commencement of the long march which is expected to be organised after the issuing of the Supreme Court’s detailed verdict in the contempt of court case against Prime Minister Gilani and in this regard Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, who is also the President PML-N Punjab wing, would meet office-holders of the party to make it more successful .
To include other political groups and civil society in its movement to oust the prime minister, the PML-N has formed a committee comprising of Zulfikar Khosa, Chaudhry Nisar and Saad Rafique.
Furthermore, Ghous Ali Shah has been delegated the responsibility of contacting nationalist groups in Sindh for this purpose. Online
