Imran has become Kulbhushan’s lawyer: Bilawal

ISLAMABAD: The PPP Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, said on Sunday that Prime Minister Imran Khan had promised the people of Kashmir that he would be their ambassador but instead became a lawyer for Kulbhushan.

His remarks came during a campaign rally in Azad Kashmir's Rawalakot, to shore up support ahead of the July 25 elections of the AJK Legislative Assembly.

The PPP chairman, strongly objecting to the passing of The International Court of Justice (Review and Reconsideration) Bill, 2020 in the National Assembly, claimed that the parliament was not taken into confidence before the bill was passed.

"If Imran Khan wishes to give Kulbhushan an NRO, he can go ahead, but the PPP will never be a partner in crime," he said. Bilawal said the people of Kashmir "will not follow a puppet regime".

"We must get this message across to Islamabad that the people of Kashmir will decide their future on their own," Bilawal said, adding that this was PPP's policy. He said the PTI is a failure in AJK, and the PPP is going to form the next government.

In further criticism of the government, Bilawal said that the people of Pakistan "are being made to bear the burden of the government's failures and its slogan for change."

He said that whereas Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) is ruled by Modi, where Kashmiris are fighting Modi's oppression, the "people of Azad Kashmir are facing Imran Khan’s inflation tsunami".