The Jamaat-e-Islami has announced its decision to join the six-party opposition alliance against the incumbent government.

“A government which came to power on the basis of Form 47 is not acceptable,” JI chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman told reporters after meeting members of the opposition alliance in Lahore on Saturday.

“The country is tackling crises and everyone should implement the Constitution.”

Last month, PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan announced a countrywide movement for the rule of law by a coalition of six opposition parties, under the banner of Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan.

The movement will hold public meetings and engage bar associations, university students and other parties for mustering their support for the campaign against the PML-N-led coalition government.

Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chairman Mehmood Khan Achakzai was nominated as president of the alliance with consensus of the leadership of opposition parties.

Rehman was flanked by six parties’ alliance President Mahmood Khan Achakzai, former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser, senior lawyer Hamid Khan, Sanaullah Baloch, JI Central Secretary General Amirul Azim, and Naib Amir Dr Usama Razi.