Screengrab of PPP patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
KARACHI: In a war of words that spilled over from the online world, Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari declared his party was not like the "cowardly" Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan.
Bilawal was speaking in Karachi on the anniversary of the 2007 attack on Benazir Bhutto’s caravan on Karsaz road that had killed at least 180 people.
The young Bhutto told a charged crowd of supporters that Imran Khan “stood outside the church and made excuses for the terrorists who were responsible for the attack,” after the Peshawar church bombing that killed at least 78 people and injured over 100 others on September 21.
“PPP will save the people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa from drowning in the tsunami,” Bilawal claimed.
The patron-in-chief also said that PPP is a party of "courageous and martyred" leaders, and is not afraid of terrorists.
Commenting on the May 2013 general elections, he said the PPP had given a lot of sacrifices to win the 2007 elections, but in the recent elections the party gave up its seats to protect its members.
“In the 2018 elections, Asif Ali Zardari will be Jiyalas’ bow and I will be the arrow,” he further stated.
Bilawal also said the PPP "saved Islamabad" from Mohammad Sikander, the man who was responsible for the standoff that had been created on Constitution Avenue for almost six hours on August 15. The stand-off had ended when PPP leader Zamrud Khan had approached the gunman and tried to grab him after which the police shot and arrested Sikander.
Bilawal assured the general public that he would fight for them and give his life for them. He also added that if someone had sacrificed his brother or son to acts of terrorism then from today onward, he would be their brother or son.
In a veiled reference to the MQM's hold over Karachi, Bilawal said that "although Pakistan got its independence in 1947, Karachi is still a colony of London."
He also declared "jihad" against religious extremists and further added that "Sindh will once again be PPP's stronghold."
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Responding to Bilawal’s comments, MQM leader Wasay Jalil said people thinking of defeating MQM are fooling themselves. He said such attempts to harm MQM were not successful in 1988 nor will they be this time.
PTI leader Naz Baloch said Bilawal lacks political knowledge.
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There must be something really funny in the environment of London. First it was Altaf Hussain Londonvi making funny speeches (& threats) over telephone, then it was Lifetime Chairman PTI Imran Khan Niazi making funny statements (phenta, shikari etc) and now it is Baby Zardari in the comedy theatre after completing his education from London.
Imran Khan and his team is responsible for all the coward decisions. A day will come when the whole nation like Bilawal will not only criticise but kick-out these non-serious and immature politicians from the country. I am surprised at PTI leaders, at the death of law minister they request to Taliban "Please stop the attacks on humanitarian grounds". Is it make any sense?
and will drown it in corruption
@Ricky: It is a shame that those who cannot even take care of their own kids and never had any profession and lived on other people’s money are targeting the kid For a minute I thought you were talking about the Bhuttos and Sharifs. The PPP (Pakistan Feudal Party) and their leaders fit the above bill. Not the supporters of PTI. Tell me who has the villas in France (the one that Zardari was visiting while Pakistan was flooded), the mansions in Surrey UK, the 30million dollars in just one Swiss bank account. (It's just the tip of the ice berg stolen from the poor masses) Is the above Imran Khan or the Socialist Roti Kapra Makan Bhuttos?????
How? By banning viber, whatsapp and cell phones? Encroaching public and private land? Political violence ? Gang wars? Extortion? Those are the only things ppp did to apparently save Karachi and sindh lol between 2008 and 2013 .. and whenever it came in power lol ..
Bilawal Sharif Zardari Bhutto <3 And PTI was a B Team of PPP :D
Yesterday i told my kids that son of this clown will be their ruler if them or our nation ever listen to these thugs, we need to teach our next generations and also those who dont have the brains to see beyond BB income support program to get rid of these parasites....
@Ricky: You sir are obviously trying to take the mantle of "man's best friend" away from dogs.
Pls Bilawal! First try to have your party govern the hinterland of Sindh first, where nepotism, feudalism, ill-thought govt policies and centuries of exploitation of the hari classes is a testament to your party's hollow leftist credentials (the highest out-of-school children are in your beloved interior SIndh). K-P will be different five years down the lane, dear Bilawal,while Sindh will still be stinking in a caludron of uneducated masses, spewing gutters and half metal-half baked roads (because the local PPP wala is in hand in glove involved in corruption with the leaders at the top)
A fellow Sindhi from the interior.
The PPP did not give up anything in the recent elections. No sane person was going to vote for them, they had nothing to give up!!!
Instead they ran and hid behind the power of the Sindhi feudal lords. Most of their seats were won in the Sindhi feudal heart land. Without them they would have disappeared from the map all together.
It's also amazing that his policies are similar to Benazir circa 1980-90 vis-à-vis Karachi and MQM. The countless dead bodies that the strife that Bhutto fed are a future we should avoid. The Oxford education he received is wasted, it has little effect on his thinking and he can produce nothing useful. He seems to be caught up in the feudal mind set of his fellow PPP. Studying history should have at least given him some inclination of the pit falls that leaders/civilisations face. Pushing for civil strife in Karachi clearly shows that we as a country are better of without him. Please stay in your Dubai mansion. Your father has looted plenty, no need for you to come back and refresh your bank balance.
Did you ask your daddy who killed your mummy ? Go on now, there's a good boy.
Comedian :)
Well if the PPP is such a success story then why is interior Sindh where they hold power the domain of feudal's with the population living in a state of slavery? Could you perhaps tells us of the success and improvements brought about in Lyari? How about Larkana, or other PPP strong holds? Care to mention the literacy rates, health statistics from these locations.
Bilawal stick to sound bites. You're well on course to becoming the next Rehman Malik. The PPP has plunged us into hopelessness and despair. I predict you'll be as hated as your father.
It's ironic to even see this corrupt family (along with PPP top office bearers) run around like this. Only Allah can save us from them because, our government just wont do n country laws them keep in their pockets.
Hahaha!!!! Mini-Zardari must have smoked something before making this speech. Can he tell what KP acronym stands for?
Statement makes me feel pleasure just because youngest Bhutto getting his mother's words to show his attitude towards people of Pakistan and workers of PPP.
give him polio drops plz
"You want to save KP? Then go speak to the people of KP in KP and tell that to them", said by the people of Karachi, Sindh.
@Sayed: very tru patreotic party bcoz we have seen last 5 year bright tenure and remember 71 when buttu brok pakistan into two. and on what base u say pti corrupt party.
A spoiled brat has jump into Politics. Try to act like Rahul Gandhi. He should learn Urdu first before making speeches. Warning to Taliban will not get you votes PPP did not save Islamabad from Sikanda, MNA Zamrud did. Do not take credit for someone else work, because it not a honest way to make yourself, but I remember you are a son of Mr and Mrs Zardari ( Mr and Mrs 10 percent). People who wrote comments regards to interior Sindh being underdevelop should blame Bhutto and Zardari families for keep their area Under develop. Remember if you educate someone than you lose a slave that work in Bilawal's Farm in Larkana. I will never vote for a liar, a fraud, selfish, cowardly and a two face leader from Larkana name Bilawal's Benazir Zardari in my lifetime. May Allah bless us with a good vision to find good Patriotic leader to lead Pakistan, Ameen.
Look who is talking,this baby boy can talk ? Very nice ...............I like babies.
Who is Bilawal??? Oh, He is the son of Asif Zardari, and grandson of Bhutto, This qualifies him to be the leader of uneducated jiyalas of Pakistan. Bilawal face the reality, Pakistan is changed, PPP is not coming in Power again. only a new party can beat PTI in future.
Baby Zardari you exposed as coward like father. Your foolish statement show that you are not mature to join political arena and still need finger of father Zardari . .
@Imran: Yes. CM and ministers attended, IK got late but is currently in KPK and has been for past day.
And this guy is going to lead the country, like father like son, I ask him one question , did you ever in your whole life dirty your hands working part time while going to college in England or millions were provide to you for your lavish style of living in England and we know how those millions came by. How could you even understand the miserable lives of some of the down trodden people of Pakistan. It is time Pakistanis reject this dynastic political leadership, all they do is come in and steal what ever they can and pass it on to their incompetent children. Pathetic leadership and ignorant pathetic people who support this dynastic stupidity.
Shame on u bbz
Zardari now wants his son to be in the line of Shaheeds. Next trump card for zardaree.
It is always interesting for me to see how little impact education has on people born in political dynasties in Pakistan. It is amazing that years of education from renowned universities has little to no impact on these people. Be it may the Bhutto family or the Sherrief family, they have a self entitlement syndrome and why should they not Pakistanis are more than willing to reinforce and reward their malady.....
I'm from KPK. My opinions is that Imran Khan is the best thing that has ever happened to us in many years. Me and my family stand by him. He may have his weaknesses but he just really wants to bring peace. Stop worrying about us, when did the rest of Pakistan ever care about KPK and Balochistan anyway? Especially PPP who ruled Pakistan for five years and couldn't do anything for this country. I highly doubt my comment will be published because only anti- Imran Khan comments do.
its not like settling a love affair jawaan..its something serious..u know what i mean
Bilawal was acting like Z.A. Bhutto! PPP is stuck in 60s and even these young and educated guys, who should bring something new on the table are acting like clones of ZAB. Sadly we will never progress!
Absolutely right, we need to be saved from this tsunami khan's adventures, he is neither leading us nor saving us, nor defending us. Weldone Bilawal
Guy behind bilawal is laughing on his jokes :)
With Bilawal bhutto KpK will go From the frying pan into the fire!
When Quaid-e-Azam spoke in English people listened with respect. When Bilawal talks in Urdu, people mock. Both the speakers have been found difficult to grasp by their respective audience. Thats the difference between a leader and a "born leader"
@ Jibran I bet you are not from KPK. Paid people
larger than size courage of a poodle.
The title of this article shows ET's biased approach. Even though Bilawal criticized all parties including PMLN and MQM, but his cricism on PTI managed to land as the title of this article. ET should show a little more professionalism !
PTI does not mind the kids.
why is rural sindh still rural sindh after 70 yrs? ans: PPP.
To claim wrong is not cost in Pak. What a stubborn boy.
why did et delete comment of pml mushahid
Bilawal fiery statement even though directed against PTI tantamount showing a red flag to the raging bull TTP, whose attention shall now be diverted from PTI towards PPP. PPP should now take necessary measures to protect itself from the onslaught of this untamed bull, whose supremacy has been challenged by it.
Noooooo! I am from KP we don't need u! First save Sindh then think about us and isn't it your government that for five years just gave us only misery and death ? Go away!
A perfect example of "aa bail mujhe maar". One does not simply mess with Imran Khan or PTI just like that.
Bilawal who?
We have already tried your Party, Now Please sit back and let the current government do their Job, BTW you should go back to London, Pakistan is not For You.
"In the 2018 elections, Asif Ali Zardari will be Jiyalas’ bow and I will be the arrow,” he further stated"
Thanks for the advanced warning, hopefully 2018 election will be the last election PPP will ever participate. Bhutto and Zardari families have looted my beloved country for decades, no more "Gunda Raj".
despite political difference with mushahid of pmln his comment was the best. Bilawal can't hunt sher even in a videogame. Tsunami has already come and is here to stay. Bows and arrows will drown
Did Imran Khan and his chief minister attend the funerals of the slain party members?
Why he doesn't come to Peshawar and deliver this speech? No point in saying your are going save KP and fight the Taleban when he is abroad most of time and wouldn't even contemplate going to KP!
Beta come and say it in jalsa at KPK...
Why all parties want to get votes of simple masses by turning their focus on Karachi when the fact is Pakistan problems like Balochistan insurgency, Taliban insurgency, Load shedding, Corruption, Lack of Education, PIA, Railways does not originate from Karachi. Why people can't see that by doing that these politicians are distracting them from real issues?
Viceroy from London is here to rule Pakistan.
For a party with the slogan of roti, kapra, makaan, its own domain of interior Sindh is the most backward part of Pakistan. If baby bhutto wants to do any good, he should start with his own province.
@concerned 90% roads in larkana developed in previous govt and hundreds of kms are in progress to connect it with difrent towns.
Rural Sindh is already PPP's. The Urban Sindh is the one PPP will never get hold of like MQM has for the past 20 years
Bilawal you are a true patriotic pakistani.We don't want corrupt parties like PMLN and PTI.
BBZ you are a disgrace shouting and screaming to get what VOTES at Imran Khan's expense? You can't compare yourself with Imran Khan. Grow up for heaven's sake.
very well said BBZ.....Happy day for Pakistan,
Sorry, but Bilawal Zardari himself is a coward person who didn't come Pakistan during the general elections and led his party. And, PPP itself is a party of looters and decoits and it is eminent from their last five years rule. Please let others to perform. This Pakistan is not a property of yours... and don't make people fool. Many other factors are involve who don't want peace.
Ughhh well KPK is in Pakistan, and I thought you live in London and dubai, Are you thinking of settling here in Pakistan. haha you must be joking.
Yes, and turn it into the prosperous paradise known as interior Sindh!
@Sami:
Like your comment. I don't know, is there any soft word than cute for a child behaviour. If you know, you can use that as well for the baby BBZ.
BBZ, can u make this pledge of yours in Urdu?
How about worrying for Sindh and Karachi first??
So what exactly did PPP do during their tenure ?? Where were you ? Do you suffer power shortages, inflation, lack of basic security healthcare, education etc.....? Well than its best to keep quiet, as likelihood of your lot getting back in power are pretty slim and there is not likely to be any sympathy votes, as the your recent tenure's memories are pretty fresh in electorate's minds !
and rural sindh still colony of dubai...
The spectacled dude's expression says it all.
in KPK by-elections PPP did not have a SINGLE candidate. That's how popular it is.
if he is so 'Brave' why is he stay outside of Pakistan?
And What PPP did for people in last 5 years? and currently in sindh?
After making this fiery speech Bilawal left for airport under massive security to leave for London via Dubai until his next fiery speech in 6 months time !!!
@Bilawal, at least IK does not spend 10 months in a year outside the country. He lives amongst his people no whatever what he believes in or say.
juvenile!
i see political future of bilawal sinking quickly
like father like son
Just look at the love ET has for PTI..he also said that he will cut the kite holding Karachi as colony from lonond and also he will finish the tiger who is eating poor....but the love of PTI forced ET only to make it as headline as he only spoke against PTI and now the moderator will not publish this comment as too many of my earlier comments...baby bhutto first come and live in Pakistan and talk,,,Imran khan is the one who has given to Pakistan..can you name any kind of project like SKMH..namal and any world cup glory you and your father have...because of you guys Pakistan has only got one thing..negative perception and bad image..
PPP has never been able to make the roads in Larkana, and they are claiming to Pakistan.
Pity that people are so uneducated that they still vote for these people.
Just a non-political advice to him. Stay away from politics for sometime and pick a social cause and work for it to prove you are not a kid. Might be a campaign to fix ghost schools in rural areas could be good cause to prove his mettle.
Make sindh a peace ful province.
hahhaa.....son thank you.we will be highly obliged if u stay as far away form KPK as you can..
BBZ conveniently forgets that in the past 5 years PPP ruled Sindh and center under his father's leadership. What progress was there over the past 5 years? Pakistan economy on the brink and Pakistan needs another IMF bailout, energy crisis continues.
Bilawal the people of Sindh and Pakistan may not be as educated as you but we are not stupid. Please stop pointing fingers at Imran Khan or Nawaz Sharif. Lets give them another 5 years each and then compare each's performance with that of your party and father.
Hahahaha, good joke. I think this one might be our resident political comedian. We should keep him just so that we can get laughs.
First save Sindh which you have been ruling for over 30 years, then talk about KP.
Baby Zardari ... Its cute that you think your are relevent ....!!
Please start by giving back the encroached land around Bilawal House first.
BBZ you had all time in five years to improve the situation. Now please sit back and relax. Let the elected representatives do their job and we will ask them after five years. Enjoy!!!