GB people to defeat PTI in elections 2020: Bilawal

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the people of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) would defeat the puppet party in the elections 2020 and would also send the puppet government in Pakistan packing in January 2021.

“Imran Khan destroyed Pakistan in just over 2 years and his change meant destruction. Today people from every section of the society are protesting against Imran Khan and his policies.

Imran brought poverty, hunger, price hike and unemployment to Pakistan,” he express these views while addressing a corner meeting in Gahkoch, Ghizar, Gilgit-Baltistan on Saturday.

Former governor GB Qamar Zaman Kaira, Senator Karim Khawaja, Pir Syed Jalal Shah, Amjad Hussain Advocate and Dr Aleem Arshad were also present in the corner meeting. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that a federal minister and some other persons were also coming to Gilgit-Baltistan and the people of GB should ask them that what they did for the people of GB so far. “These government functionaries have come here to buy votes but they do not know that the people of Gilgit-Baltistan are people of honourable and are not for sale,” he said.

Bilawal said that the PPP would provide the people of GB their own province, right to rule and property and right to choose the prime minister of Pakistan. ”These demands of right to rule and property, separate province and right to choose the prime minister of Pakistan was included in the party manifesto for election 2018 in Pakistan,” he said. He said the demand for increased funds for Gilgit-Baltistan was also there in the same manifesto. Bilawal said that the people, dealing with national security, had also come on the same page as PPP, Jiyalas and the people of GB. ”Now the puppets are also siding with us on these demands,” he said. He said that when everything in GB was given by the PPP then the right to have their own province and other rights will also be given by the PPP. He said that the Cabinet of Imran Khan's government had rejected the demand of separate province and filed a review petition against this demand in the Supreme Court. He demanded withdrawal of the review petition.

Bilawal paid rich tributes to Shaheed Lalak Jan, Nishan-e-Haider and other 31 brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the nation. He said that only PPP had served the people of Gilgit-Baltistan.

Bilawal that PPP during its government 2008-13 had increased salaries of government employees up to 150 percent, salaries of army personnel up to 175 percent and pensions up to 100 percent. “Last year federal government and provincial government did not increase salaries and pension but only Sindh government increased salaries and pensions,” he said. He said the PPP gives subsidies to poor, whereas Imran Khan introduced amnesty for rich cronies.” Now Imran Khan wants to hand over tourism to his friends but we will not let them do it because we think that people of Gilgit-Baltistan deserve tourism department,’ he said, adding that Imran Khan had made national radio’s employees unemployed.