BAHAWALPUR: Police on Saturday stopped Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari from proceeding to Uch Sharif in Bahawalpur, where he is expected to address a gathering.
According to the PPP social media cell, the police in Bahawalpur not only stopped Bilawal from proceeding to his destination, it also seized the keys of all the vehicles in the PPP chairman’s convoy.
Party leader Sherry Rehman took to Twitter and said: “Chairman Bilawal and his vehicles have been stopped by Punjab police on way to Uch Sharif Mazar and jalsagah for the last 25 minutes. Totally unacceptable and illegal to blockade the path of any political party on election campaign route. ECP, Govt please notice and act.”
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Bilawal’s spokesperson Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar said that the PPP chairman is the head of a political party and under the electoral laws cannot be stopped from campaigning, He added that the police must remove all barricades immediately and allow him to proceed to Uch Sharif.
