Opp announces nationwide movement against 27th Amendment

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The opposition alliance on Saturday announced a nationwide movement against the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment.

Opposition Alliance leaders Mahmood Khan Achakzai and Senator Allama Raja Nasir Abbas announced the launch of nationwide movement against the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment at a press conference here.

“Let’s launch a countrywide movement from Sunday (today) evening at 8:30pm,” Achakzai declared

Achakzai said, “The Constitution is a civil contract between the state and the citizens. I have been sworn in five times to protect the Constitution.

“No one is recognising the people, so we are going to them. Just as they are shaking the foundations of the Constitution, we have no choice but to launch this movement.”

Nasir Abbas said that Pakistan was dismembered in 1971. Now the country has once again reached a critical juncture in history, the nation should rise up against the 27th Constitutional Amendment, democratic institutions have been paralysed in Pakistan, and more power is being given to the more powerful through Constitutional measures.

Both the leaders stated that the amendment posed an existential threat to the country’s constitutional order, denouncing the government’s manoeuvre as a brazen attempt to cling to power through illegitimate means.

Achakzai announced that from Sunday night, "our slogan will be ‘Long live democracy, down with dictatorship.’”

The third slogan, he declared, would be demand for the release of political prisoners.

“This is not just a politic struggle; this is a fight to save Pakistan,” Achakzai concluded.