Aseefa urges Karachiites to make Bilawal next prime minister

Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, the youngest daughter of late former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, has called on Karachiites to vote for the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) to make its chairman and her brother, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the next premier of the country, enabling him to serve the masses.

Aseefa addressed a women-only gathering organized by the PPP as part of its election campaign in the Chanesar Goth area of the city on Friday. She said, “The PPP and the Pakistani people will emerge successful in the February 8 election as we jointly transform the country’s destiny.”

She mentioned that her mother had dedicated her life to the struggle for securing women's rights, and her father and former president Asif Ali Zardari launched the Benazir Income Support Programme to grant financial autonomy to women from underprivileged families in the country.

Aseefa added that the PPP’s primary focus, upon coming into power, would be on providing healthcare facilities, as these services should be available to every citizen irrespective of their socio-economic status. She claimed, “The PPP stands for serving the destitute people in the country.”

She highlighted the PPP's achievements, mentioning the construction and expansion of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation in Karachi and other cities of the province. She also noted the launch of the Pink Bus Service for women commuters in urban areas and the regularization of shanty settlements in the cities.

Aseefa announced that, after coming into power, the PPP would provide up to 300 units of electricity free of charge to low-income power consumers.

Karachi PPP President Saeed Ghani stated that the areas included in the PS-105 constituency were like a mini-Pakistan, with people from all ethnic and linguistic communities residing in them. He claimed that past PPP governments had successfully resolved issues faced by the people in the constituency. “Up to 70 percent of the water supply issue in the constituency has been resolved, and soon it will be resolved up to 100 percent,” he said.