Sharpening their attacks against Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government, Pakistan’s major Opposition parties on Sunday held their third massive rally in Quetta, capital of its troubled Balochistan province, PTI reported.

The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), a coalition of 11 Opposition parties formed on September 20, earlier held two massive back-to-back gatherings in Gujranwala and Karachi this month.

Just as the rally began, the city witnessed a bomb blast that killed three and injured seven. The bomb blast was carried out just 30 to 40 minutes away from the protest site.

Undeterred, the PDM leaders went ahead with the rally.

Nawaz Sharif lashes out at army, ISI

Addressing the rally via video link from London, PML-N supremo and three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif again blamed Army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and ISI Director General Lt Gen Faiz Hameed for Pakistan’s current situation.

“Gen Bajwa, you will have to answer for record rigging in the 2018 elections, for horse-trading in the Parliament, for making Imran Niazi prime minister against people’s wishes and [by] tearing apart the Constitution and laws, for pushing people towards poverty and hunger,” Sharif said, PTI reported.

He accused Hameed of “interfering in politics for several years with impunity” in violation of his oath.

Sharif said that he names individuals “because I don’t want my army to be defamed”.

Speaking on the reports of forced disappearances in province, the PML-N supremo said, “I am aware of Baloch people’s problems, Nawaz Sharif knows the missing persons issue is still there. I feel pain when I see the victims.”

He said that the PDM has risen against “unconstitutional powers that have made Pakistan hollow from inside and out”.

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This isn’t the first time Sharif leveled such allegations. He railed against the country’s powerful army and the intelligence service, at PDM’s previous rallies in Gujranwala and Karachi.

“No longer will husbands and brothers go missing”

Sharif’s daughter and PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz in her speech said that the time has come to change the fate of Pakistan – and Balochistan.

“No longer will husbands and brothers go missing, people of Balochistan,” she said, addressing the attendees.

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“The reason you are deprived of food and shelter is that your vote is not respected. Those who rule you are not answerable to you but to someone else, someone else pulls their strings,” she said.

“What sort of a democracy is this?”

Addressing the rally via video link, Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari asked, “What sort of a democracy is this where the media isn’t free and neither is the judiciary.”

In his speech, Balochistan National Party President Sardar Akhtar Mengal lashed out at the Khan government and establishment over the missing persons’ issue.

He also alleged that since 1947, governments had never kept their agreements with the Baloch people and they were not treated as equal citizens of the country.