Pakistan's newly-formed alliance of 11 Opposition parties on Sunday held its massive anti-government rally in Peshawar despite a ban imposed by the city administration owing to a spike in COVID-19 cases and security threats, with top coalition leaders predicting that the Imran Khan Government will "have to go home by January".
The fourth power show by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) was held despite the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government's warning that it may lodge cases against the PDM leaders if a spike in Covid-19 cases was witnessed in the province after the rally. The alliance earlier held three massive back-to-back gatherings in Gujranwala, Karachi and Quetta.
Addressing the gathering, Pakistan People's Party leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari vowed that January will be the incumbent Government's "last month in power" and the people will decide how Pakistan will be governed.
"They will go home in January," he said. "Time is near when you, the people, would hold this selected Government and its selectors responsible for current crises...," he said.