No truce now Mian Sahib, says Zardari

GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH: Pakistan People's Party's Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out compromise with former prime minster Nawaz Sharif, saying no matter what happens we (PPP) will remain at war with the PML-N.

Addressing a rally here on Wednesday on the death anniversary of party founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, he said that Nawaz Sharif has always disrupted the PPP governments with the support of the Establishment. The former president said that Nawaz Sharif won the ROs' elections. He said: "I won't even let you have your own Punjab chief minister in the next polls. We will make government in alliance with other parties."

He said with the help of the people, they would compel Mian Sahib to leave politics. He said the government spent millions to win a seat from Lahore. In every era, a Bhutto has given sacrifice, first it was Shahnawaz, then Murtaza and then Benazir, he added.

Meanwhile, Pakistan People's Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Wednesday that the late Bhutto was the first person to stand for democracy in the country.

Addressing a rally, he said that the Simla agreement and getting consensus on the Constitution were achievements of the late Bhutto.

Today, every Pakistani has a right to vote, which is a gift of the late Bhutto to the people of Pakistan, he said. The political system existing today is because of the martyrs of PPP and we won t let this system be wrapped up.

He said that the people of Pakistan have a choice, whether to take the legacy of Ziaul Haq or Bhutto. There is also a third option i.e. the hypocrite Khan whose flag has the sign of u-turn. He is the lost brother of Taliban, he said while taking a jibe at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan.

“We won’t let the B team of religious extremists come in power. “Shehbaz Sharif has inaugurated only one hospital while the PPP has opened 517 health facility centers,” he claimed.

The PPP leader said that people are not concerned on Mujhay Kyun Nikala (why I was ousted) slogan of Nawaz but rather concerned about their basic issues. The PML-N and PTI have the same politics and same economic agenda, the PPP leader said.

He said it is a joke with the nation that a person who has never respected vote is calling for its respect.

“The PPP has never got justice from the courts. We do raise our voice against it but respect it. We still demand justice for the judicial murder of Zulfikar Bhutto,” he said.

Meanwhile, caravans of Bhutto supporters had reached Larkana from across the country ahead of the party founder’s death anniversary.

The PPP had set up two camps, one in Larkana and the other in Garhi Khuda Baksh, where Bhutto is buried in order to facilitate the party workers.

Senior party leaders, including opposition leader Khursheed Shah, Sherry Rehman and Qamar Zaman Kaira, were also present.