PPP announces party’s long march schedule towards the capital

Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) on Tuesday announced the schedule of the party’s long march, which is set to take place on February 27.

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will start the long march from Karachi and will reach the capital in 10 days.

IA from 27th February we will begin our #AwamiMarch from Karachi to Islamabad. We march against this selected government and the economic disaster they have caused. Join us for a peaceful, prosperous & progressive Pakistan. https://t.co/8Dt8lWY1h6 pic.twitter.com/AnapOYjjC0

— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) February 15, 2022

According to the schedule, the long march will start from Karachi’s Mazar-e-Quaid on February 27.

The marchers’ will reach Multan on March 3, where they will be hosted by former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.

The march will reach Lahore on March 6 . The last stop of the march will be Islamabad on March 8.

The PPP, however, has not disclosed the final venue where the participants will stay after reaching the capital from all over the country.

PPP office-bearer, on condition of anonymity, told Dawn that the leadership would decide the duration of the stay in Islamabad after seeing the response of the masses and assessing the situation. However, he said, many party leaders believed that the past history showed that indefinite sit-ins staged by political parties had never remained successful.