MULTAN: Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said he isn’t a part of any conspiracy against Nawaz till today but he can hatch a conspiracy against him tomorrow.
Addressing a mammoth gathering at Qila Qasim Bagh, he announced that he would form the next government at every cost and said Nawaz’s disqualification was written on the wall because he opted to extreme in all matters. Allah disqualified [Nawaz] but the judges were the source of his disqualification, he remarked.
He said Nawaz was having a fight with everyone and finally God imposed his justice because he was destroying the masses. “Neither poor were happy, nor peasant. Only Nawaz Sharif and his some friends were happy. The countries make progress when poor become rich.”
Zardari described Yousaf Raza Gilani as a brave person and said he was removed and disqualified when he rejected the government [state] within the [state] government. It was a turning point and a war started but the PPP completed the five years term, he added.
The escape of Nawaz and Ishaq Dar, he remarked, had proved their commitment to facing imprisonment.
Zardari said, “Nawaz Sharif does not know the definition of China Pakistan Economic Corridor and he only knows that the CPEC is a loaning agency but borrower would demand return of his loan.”
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said the days of the younger Mian Sahib [Shahbaz Sharif] were numbered and he would have to accept [his role] in the Model Town killings, committing mega corruption in Multan Metro project and keeping southern Punjab deprived of basic facilities.
Bilawal said Nawaz Sharif had been claiming to be committed to ideology without explaining what it was.
Nawaz represented the ideology which he promised at the grave of a dictator Ziaul Haq. Nawaz’s ideology was aimed at weakening and dishonouring the parliament, as he ran the government through remote, he added.
He said former president Asif Zardari made all possible efforts to strengthen democracy and Parliament but Nawaz spoiled everything. “Mian Sahib! If democracy is fragile today, it is because of you. If people are suffering today, it is because of you,” Bilawal claimed.
He said the PML-N created hurdles in creation of Seraiki province and promised that his party would create the province after coming into power.
Bilawal alleged that the budget allocated for horticulture in Lahore was many times more than south Punjab’s health budget. He said the PPP had laid down a network of health facilities across Sindh, which was unprecedented, providing free treatment to everyone.
The PPP chairman said the PML-N did not protect the interests of Seraiki region but his party would always stand with the Seraiki people. The PPP had awarded land ownership rights to peasants having 12 acres of land, he said and recalled that Shaheed Benazir Bhutto provided electricity to backward areas.
Criticising Imran Khan, he said “the Niazi Offshore Services” was using filthy language. “The Faizabad people may bear that filthy language but the PPP cannot tolerate it. Imran is close aide to Maulana Samiul Haq,” he remarked, advising Imran to shun the politics of terrorism and jihad.
“I cannot say any word about Imran Khan but tell him one thing he needs to learn some political ethics. This is my first election and it would be the last election for Imran Khan,” he said.
He said Imran was claiming to the leader of youth but first he must tell his own age. “His KP chief minister is one of the oldest CM in the country but PPP has one of the youngest chief ministers in Sindh. Imran Khan has no political manifesto. The unemployment is the major issue of youth and PPP is the only party can provide jobs to youth.”
Bilawal announced his five-point agenda, which include complete elimination of GST on seed and fertilizers, fixing support price before sowing, water distribution in transparent way, transparent wheat bags distribution and protection of sugarcane growers.
“The PPP strongly believes that prosperity of farmers is the uplift and development of the country. The PPP would stop exploitation of small growers. The farmers have become tenants on their ancestral lands and PPP would eliminate this injustice,” he said.
