IGPs also keep on changing in KP: Bilawal

ISLAMABAD: The PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Thursday said inspector generals are also changed frequently in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but the same is denied in Sindh.

Talking to media persons outside the Parliament House, Bilawal said system of double standards damages the Federation.

The PPP chairman said there cannot be two laws in one Pakistan. He said all the residents of Islamabad do not remember that Islamabad's IG was changed and sent home because some livestock entered the house of a minister, when a cow entered the minister's house, and then that IG did not answer the phone. “An IG can be changed over this. A very fantastic IG was sent to Punjab who had to oversee the entire Punjab police reforms. He too was changed in a matter of week,” he said.

Bilawal said the matter of the transfer of IG Sindh is another example of the complete and utter weakness of Imran Khan's leadership and his inability to govern, to administrate and to stand by a commitment.

The PPP chairman said the government has convened the session of the National Assembly before schedule only for tabling an ordinance.

“Parliament is being undermined since this government came into power and this session is not summoned for discussion on important issues. We are not summoned to discuss worst economic situation, price hike and food insecurity,” he said.

Bilawal said this session of the National Assembly just because the government wanted to table its ordinances. He said the government is carrying out legislation through backdoor. He said the there is no democracy in the behaviour and conduct of this government and it wants the Parliament to be rendered powerless.

“We strongly oppose this which is why we condemn the ordinances and the President House which has now become a factory of ordinances and we walked out of the National Assembly today,” he said.

Bilawal said when the PTI staged a sit-in, it was democracy, but the opposition’s sit-in was declared sedition.

The PPP chairman said that to make any amendment in the law there was always a debate between the government and opposition, but the government’s attitude is not democratic as it has turned the Presidency into an ordinance factory.

Bilawal said that right now is the series of political arrests which has begun again and include Manzoor Pashteen, MNA Mohsin Dawar and some young students who were holding a peaceful protest. He said that not only does the PPP condemn this act, but also is trying to make the government understand that they should let democracy prevail. Bilawal said the whole world is saying that Pakistan is facing financial difficulties and price hike keeps on increasing, food items are getting costlier and the prices of power and gas are being increased daily. He said living in this country for a common man is getting more and more difficult and instead of giving relief, solving the problems of the people, this government is further burdening the common man. He said the government should realise that if it has to burden anyone, it should burden the elite and influential class, but unfortunately, the tradition of this government has been that if it is to give a tax amnesty scheme, then it is not for our small traders or farmers, but it is for billionaires.