PDM decided to join hands with PPP to support party's long march towards Islamabad

Amid the ongoing political situation in the country, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), has decided to join hands with the PPP to support the party's long march towards Islamabad against the PTI-led government.

PDM — the alliance of eight opposition parties — of which Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) are the major ones, have decided to welcome the convoys of the long march.

PML-N will welcome the convoys in Punjab while the JUI-F will do so in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, sources added.

The development comes a day after a meeting took place between JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman and PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari. During the meeting, different options were discussed for the success of the no-trust move against the prime minister, while the two leaders had also agreed to take estranged PTI leaders into confidence, sources had said.

It has been decided that the activists of component parties of the PDM will welcome the participants of the long march in each city across the country. The opposition leaders will deliver their speeches while standing on top of containers, sources said, adding that no stage will be set up in any city during the march.

Upon arrival in Islamabad, there will be a mass public meeting during which the date for the no-trust motion is likely to be announced.

Neither the long march will enter the Red Zone nor the PPP will stage a sit-in in Islamabad, sources said.