CHITRAL: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Saturday that the 2018 general elections would be his first and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan’s last polls in the country.
Addressing a large public gathering in Chitral, Bilawal said that the PPP had always given priority to Chitral.
“Chitral is my second home after Larkana,” the PPP chief said. “It was also the home of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nusrat Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto.” Taking a jab at ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif who inaugurated the Lowari Tunnel in July, Bilawal said, “Nawaz Sharif’s politics of hypocrisy has reached its end.”
The PPP leader added that Nawaz should not be happy by thinking that he had been spared after being disqualified; “he will have to be answerable for the loot and plunder of the nation’s wealth”.
“The PML-N leader was disqualified on the articles of the constitution introduced by a dictator,” said Bilawal. “We reminded them time and again that these had been unconstitutionally inducted in the constitution, but they did not pay heed.”
Bilawal went on to say that Nawaz wanted to use these articles against his political rivals, but was disqualified by the same.
“There is no difference between Nawaz and Imran Khan,” Bilawal said, accusing the PTI of pocketing the money meant for development projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Asking where was PTI’s oft-quoted ‘Naya Pakistan’, the PPP chairman said that the youth of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were jobless, while educated women were parting ways with the party.
Published in Daily Times, August 6th 2017.
