GDA tells workers to attend PTI protests across Sindh

The Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) has directed its party leaders and workers to participate in the protests to be led by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Sindh, including Karachi, on Sunday (today).

The general secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional and GDA Information Secretary Sardar Abdul Rahim said on Saturday that Sindh was protesting against the rigged elections.

He added that the GDA had been continuing its protest against the alleged electoral rigging along with its allied parties.

He said that GDA leader Syed Sadruddin Shah Rashidi had instructed the workers to attend the PTI protests. He added that the GDA’s protest would continue till “the end of the governments formed as a result of rigged elections”.

A day earlier, Sadruddin Shah Rashidi had said at a press conference at his residence after a meeting of the GDA and allied parties that the GDA and its allies had rejected the results of the recent general elections as they were fraudulent. He had said the protests would continue until the ‘bogus’ government was removed.

"We will continue our peaceful struggle until this illegitimate government goes home," he said. "We have to protect the people's votes."

"We believe that the PTI is fighting for the rights of the people," he said.

Other GDA leaders who were present on the occasion included Syed Zain Shah, Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, Sardar Abdul Rahim, Masroor Siyal, Syed Jalal Shah Jamot, Mazhar Rahoojo, Barrister Hussain Mirza, Nand Kumar, Raja Azhar, Abdul Razzaq Raheem, Arbab Anwar and Engineer Abdul Karim Sher.

On Friday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Rehana Dar had said that her party was preparing a case against the alleged election rigging in Karachi and Hyderabad and would submit it before the chief justice of Pakistan.

Dar along with other leaders of the party, including Aftab Jehangir and Ali Palh, addressed a press conference in Karachi, expressing dissatisfaction with the recent general election results.

She alleged that Pakistan Peoples Party lawmakers Hakim Baloch, Nabeel Gabol and Qadir Patel, as well Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leaders Farooq Sattar and Mustafa Kamal were fraudulently declared victors, while PTI leaders like Haleem Adil Sheikh were defeated.

“We talk about women’s rights, but there is injustice happening to women here,” Dar said, highlighting her own legal challenges to the election results in Sialkot. “We have given them a legal and moral defeat.”