PM Imran will have to resign: Rahbar Committee Convener

ISLAMABAD: Rahbar Committee Convener Akram Durrani said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Imran Khan will have to resign.

In a statement, Durrani said that the committee had demanded the resignation of the prime minister and they would not go back without it.

“We asked for the prime minister’s resignation. Won’t go back without it,” he said.

Durrani said that he had neither contacted Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani nor Defence Minister Pervez Khattak. He said that the two  had contacted him instead.

He also gave the Rahbar Committee’s message to the government to not create any hurdles for participants of the march.

“The leadership will not meet the government without the Rahbar Committee,” he said. “Even JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman will not meet Pervaiz Elahi.”

The JUI-F has announced a long march against the government which would begin from October 27 and would culminate in a protest on October 31 in Islamabad.

Fazl has blamed Prime Minister Khan for the economic problems of the country and has asked him to go home. Prime Minister Khan and his cabinet members, on the other hand, have warned the marchers that strict action will be taken against those who take the law into their own hands.

Prime Minister Khan has claimed that Fazl was concerned with the madressah reforms that the government was about to undertake. Government representatives have cautioned the JUI-F against using madressah students for their long march.