QUETTA: Jamiat Ulemai-Islam (Fazl)chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has urged Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government to immediately step down to avoid a march on Islamabad in October.

Speaking at a `million march` of the JUI-F here on Sunday, he said: `This is our last long march and next will be our Freedom March in Islamabad if the PTI government does not resign in August.

A large number of workers and sympathisers of the JUI-F from different parts of Balochistan participated in the march.

Maulana Fazl claimed that at the culmination of the planned Azadi March, 1.5 million people would stage a sit-in in the federal capital until Prime Minister Khan and his cabinet resigned.

`Af ter holding 14 successful million marches across the country, today we have arrived in Quetta and this sea of people shows what the people of Pakistan want,` he added.

He said that Quetta`s march was a clear message for the `imposed` PTI government that the opposition pardes and the nadon would not tolerate a `selected government` as the last year`s elections had been massively rigged and the people`s mandate stolen.

Maulana Fazl said that the JUI-F would `liberate the country from US lobby and imposed IMF employees as we are determined to oust Jewish lobby from Pakistan`.

`The JUI-F is a democratic party and basic purpose of our struggle is upholding supremacy of law and Constitution of Pakistan. The party wants a peaceful Pakistan and is struggling along with other opposition parties to protect the ideological identity of the country,` he added.

He said that no dictator, bureaucrat or `imposed rulers` should give them the lesson of democracy as the JUI-F had a great struggle and sacrifices to its credit.

`The party has rendered immense sacrifices for restoration of democracy and upholding supremacy of the Constitution in the country and it always stands by democracy and the constitution,` Maulana Fazl added.

He said the survival of any government depended on its unancial strategy or five-year plan, but the present government`s first budget had been rejected by the people. `The recent countrywide strike observed by the traders is sort of a rebellion against the selected government.

All political parties of the country had rejected the last general elections and refused to accept a leadership `which plummeted from the sky`, the JUI-F chief said and called for mid-term elections.

Maulana Fazl criticised Imran Khan`s recent meeting with President Donald Trump and said that `Pakistan has again been pushed into US slavery`.

Vowing to confront the PTI government`s flawed policies, he said: `We have a clear version on blasphemy law and Khatm-iNabuwwat and will not allow the federal government to even touch the bla sphemy law.

He said that the entire world acknowledged the success of the JUI-F`s Peshawar million march, but the PTI government alleged that the party had brought seminary students on the roads.

`The country has decided to bring seminary students into the mainstream, but we are being criticised for making them part of political process. Don`t they have right to vote and participate in political gatherings?` Maulana Fazl asked.

About the federal budget, he said that for first time in the country`s history, the budget lacked a vision of development and progress.