PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. PHOTO: AFP
KARACHI: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari ratcheted up pressure on the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Sunday, renewing opposition Pakistan People Party calls for ending the ‘victimisation’ of its senior members.
The statement comes a day after former president Asif Ali Zardari criticised the government for what he termed as a campaign against former premiers Yousaf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, and ex-federal minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who have been implicated in corruption cases.
In a veiled warning, Bilawal advised the government to deliberate over its policy before revisiting the era of political persecution.
The PPP chief said members of his party have defied persecution at the hands of dictators, who concocted baseless cases against them. “Facing jails and courts is nothing new for PPP workers,” he added.
He claimed that those who initiated false cases and references against PPP leaders in the past had later apologised.
Bilawal urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to disclose his stance on the policy of reconciliation initiated by Benazir Bhutto. Concluding his remarks, the PPP chief said that his party will never stop its struggle for the restoration of true democracy in the country and equal rights for people without any discrimination.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2014.
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Baby BHUTTO is kinda cute and lost.
Bilawal believes in live and let live (or read, steal and let steal).
Bilawal dear, there are some other good way to grow and become big politician, Please choose one from them....
Bilawal Bhutto Sardari will one day become the ruler of Pakistan
How about public victimisation in Thar? Raised and educated with corruption money what can we expect from you!
Accountability is not victimization , If Law taking place then why you divert this to political victimization as you very well know about the moral corrupt leader and their corruption in your tenure. So please if you so much patriotic then ask your JIALAS to re submit the lot and plunder money to Pakistan.
When all loot and plunder......all get together to protect each other...from each other. The people are mere spectators.
Name names
I was a joint secretary with one of these so called victims, and can say with certainty that these guys are not only involved in gross misconduct but also in accruing assets beyond their means through illegal means. Please don't do this to the poor country.
Bilawal, wait till the senate election and when PMLN dominates the Senate. Your PPP cronies that looted the country for the past 5 years will then be brought quickly to task.
Silly Bilawal, politics is for men.
What has your party done in SIX years (center and province)??? If you had shown some concern for the equality of the citizens in the interior; 2010 and 2011 Flood victims, Thar famine victims, lawlessness in Karachi, and operated and EFFECTIVE administration, your problems would have been less than half. Salams
@Mr. Honest: It is used to mask their feudal and corrupt mentality by hollow words and shallow slogans
Here comes junior after the senior for the protection of the corrupt and their corruption
PPPP made a mistake of not piling cases on PML-N during their regime, anyhow there would,nt be any judgement against PPPP as it will be against the spirit of Democracy
reconciliation,...hmmm,...finally the cat is out of the bag.
I wish the little lion roared the same for the children of Thar... oops, I am sorry, I forgot the concept of nepotism.....
Like father, Like son... what is the affect of all that western education, I wonder...