Bilawal backs Imran’s views on PM, opposes his unconstitutional demands

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday said he endorses Imran Khan that the PML-N government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is the biggest threat to democracy but disagrees with his unconstitutional demands.

“In case of any coup, Imran Khan may do the same thing that he did in 2014 but if any unconstitutional step was taken, then the PPP will be on the roads like it did in 1986 when the people welcomed Benazir Bhutto Shaheed as she arrived in Pakistan. The PPP knows how to struggle against dictatorship either of Zia or Musharraf. We have complete confidence in the Constitution and will adopt constitutional ways,” he said while addressing a press conference here along with the top leadership of the PPP, including opposition leaders of the National Assembly and Senate Syed Khursheed Shah and Aitzaz Ahsan besides PPP vice president Senator Sherry Rehman, PPP information secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira, Nadeem Afzal Chan, Faryal Talpur, Senator Farhatullah Babar, former deputy speaker National Assembly Faisal Karim Kundi and Nazir Dhoki.

Bilawal said democracy shall prevail as it was the best revenge. “I shall make efforts to carry on the work of my mother Benazir Bhutto,” he added.Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari intimated the government that if it rigged the polls of Azad Jammu and Kashmir or if bloodshed took place, then the PPP will make it forget the sit-in of the year 2014.

However, when asked if he meant that the PPP is planning to go for a dharna, Bilawal explained that the PPP has complete confidence in the Constitution and will adopt constitutional ways to register its protests and use all the democratic forums like parliament, accountability bureau and the Election Commission of Pakistan.

Bilawal said the PPP reconciliation is not restricted to PML-N only but open to all the opposition parties. He said the government had no foreign policy as there were tensions on all the borders of Pakistan.

He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif served as the country’s premier thrice and he had no excuse on the absence of the country’s foreign minister. absence of the country’s foreign minister. He said the time has come to work on the country’s foreign policy and the government was responsible for persisting tensions on the borders.

The PPP chairman also urged the internal community and the international human rights bodies to take notice of atrocities of the Indian forces in Indian Held Kashmir. Bilawal said he has been speaking about Kashmir ever since he entered politics. “We gave sacrifices for Kashmir,” he said.

Bilawal enquired from the PM that how can he ignore the cause of Kashmir” He asked from PM what he did regarding Kashmir if it was among his priorities. He said that Nawaz Sharif should act as the premier and not as a businessman. “Mian Sahib met Indian steel tycoon and not Hurriyat leaders, he needs to think whether he is prime minister or a businessman,” he added.

Bilawal said the PML-N economic policies were not even capitalist but monopolist as they control all the business either it be of poultry, dairy or steel and the finance minister was marketing their products. He said no country including the United States was earlier giving visa to Narendra Modi for his atrocities and brutalities in Gujarat against Muslims.

While talking about the PanamaLeaks issue, Bilawal said the matter was a massive corruption scandal and if the names of the country’s leaders were in Panama Papers then it was shameful. “Three months have passed since PanamaLeaks but no accountability has been made. The prime minister himself in the Parliament stated that accountability should be started from him but so far the process of the accountability has not started,” he added.