Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan under fire as thousands protest to demand his removal
- Nine major opposition parties formed the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) to oust Khan, who is blamed for the poor state of the economy
- Maryam Nawaz, daughter of former PM Nawaz Sharif, accused him of snatching jobs and food from people. Her husband was later arrested
Nine major opposition parties formed a joint platform called the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) last month to begin a nationwide agitation against the government.
“You’ve snatched jobs from people. You have snatched two-time a day food from the people,” said opposition leader Maryam Nawaz about Khan while addressing the rally, which drew growing crowds in the second such gathering in three days. She is the daughter and political heir of the former three-time premier Nawaz Sharif.
In the early hours of Monday, police arrested her husband Muhammad Safdar following complaints from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party that he had raised political slogans at the mausoleum of Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, an action deemed illegal.
“Police broke my room door at the hotel I was staying at in Karachi and arrested Capt. Safdar,” Nawaz tweeted on Monday morning. A spokesman of the provincial government said police had not acted on their orders.
