Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that the countrywide Azadi March will start on October 27, 2019 and convoys of the march will enter the federal capital on October 31. Talking to reporters here on Wednesday after chairing a high-level party meeting which was held to review arrangements regarding Azadi March, he said that the party has discussed the matters relating to arrangements of Azadi March and final destination is Islamabad's D-Chowk.

Maulana announced that all convoys will enter Islamabad on October 31 and protests would be held across the country on October 27 to express solidarity with Kashmiris who will be marking 27th October as a black day. The JUI-F chief directed the party workers to reach Islamabad in a peaceful manner. He said arrangements would soon be finalized regarding the anti-government march.

Earlier in the day, JUI-F Senator Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, through his counsel Kamran Murtaza, submitted an application to Chief Commissioner of Islamabad Amer Ali Ahmad, asking for approval to hold the march as well as security arrangements for participants. "The JUI-F will be holding the Azadi March on October 27at D-Chowk, Islamabad, exercising its democratic and Constitutional right under Articles 16 and 17 of the Constitution against the incumbent government," reads the application. Fazlur Rehman also urged the party workers to prepare themselves for the march and avoid becoming part of any propaganda. He asserted, "The entire country would be our battleground."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019