Opposition will restore sanctity of vote, says Fazlur Rehman

restoring [the sanctity] of the people's vote." Speaking to the media in Lahore before his departure to the venue, he said: "We don't have personal enmity with anyone. But it should be specified that Pakistan belongs to Pakistanis. It does not belong to Western entities. "Pakistan did not come into power to be ruled by the global establishment."

Rehman added that the only legislation done during the past two years of the PTI government has been under the Financial Action Task Force's conditions. "The parliament's sovereignty is not considered [...] and the purpose of the law mentioned on the bill clearly states that legislation is being done under the FATF's conditions. "If we do this, then our parliament is negating its own sovereignty." He added that the parliament was not the people's and had been brought under by the global establishment and was legislating according to its own agenda.

"To defeat such governance, all of the country's opposition parties are under one forum and will address the nation as one," he said. Meanwhile, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz left for the rally from her residence at Jati Umra, Lahore. Before her departure, Maryam said she was embarking on this "mission as Nawaz's foot soldier".

"I have dedicated myself to your struggle, your mission for Pakistan and its people. May Allah be with us and may we return triumphant and victorious. Pakistan Zindabad," she said in a tweet addressed to the PMLN supremo who is also expected to address the rally. Meanwhile, PPP Chairman Bilawal-Bhutto Zardari said that the current government's anxiety was before the nation. "Our workers are being harassed, FIRs are being lodged and leaders' houses are being besieged," he said while speaking to the media in Lala Musa, from where he was meant to lead a convoy to the venue in Gujranwala.

Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Friday that the opposition was committed to restoring the sanctity of the people's vote as the opposition - under the banner of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) made its way to Gujranwala for the first rally of its anti-government campaign.

"The opposition [...] is committed and there should be no impression that any of the parties are waiting for an agreement. All [parties] are committed and are united in

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