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We can't have one kind of Pakistan for Musharraf and another for Benazir: Bilawal

Addressing Hindu supporters, Bilawal says PPP wants a Pakistan where every citizen had equal rights

News Desk March 24, 2016

Addressing Hindu supporters, Bilawal says PPP wants a Pakistan where every citizen had equal rights. PHOTO: FILE

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday questioned why people belonging to minority communities weren't given the chance to hold important government positions in the country.

Addressing a large gathering of supporters in the largest Hindu minority district of Umerkot, Bilawal said his party wanted a Pakistan where every citizen had equal rights.

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“It cannot be that Pakistan for Muslims is different from Pakistan for the minorities. It cannot be that Pakistan for men is different from Pakistan for women,” he said.

The PPP chairman was presented with traditional Rajastani headgear and smeared with colours on his face. “Asalamalikum and Namaste,” said Bilawal after he exuberantly tossed powder in the air to kickoff celebrations.

"If a Muslim can become the president of India, then why can't a person belonging to the minority community hold an important official position in Pakistan?" the PPP chairman asked.

Bilawal vowed to fight for the rights of minorities and Hindus in particular and work towards granting them equal status in the country. “It is not possible for Muslims and minorities, rich and poor, labourers and businessmen, farmers and landlord, men and women to live with separate statuses in this country,” he said.

"I do not want one kind of Pakistan for Pervez Musharraf and a different Pakistan for Benazir Bhutto,” he added.

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“We want a Pakistan that the Quaid-e-Azam envisioned; where the state will not have to do anything with the religion of individuals and where everyone will be free to go to their own places of worship.”

The PPP chairman also criticised the Punjab government's Women Protection Bill. "The law introduced in the name of women did not resolve their actual issues and the weak provincial chief minister has been compelled to make amendments to it."

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He also urged the national and provincial assemblies to introduce laws similar to the ones the PPP has introduced in Sindh, such as the Hindu Marriage bill.

Bilawal announced that he is beginning his tour of South Punjab on March 26 and would address a gathering in Rahimyar Khan to honour the party's promises.

COMMENTS (13)

NHA | 8 years ago | Reply No wonder MQM and PPP were friends for so long. Asif Ali Zardari and Altaf Hussain played politics with their respective constituencies and exploited them. And now Bilawal is trading on the same path. Where is enlightenment absorbed from Oxford ??? It is hopelessness all around.

Babbarsher Khan | 8 years ago | Reply The Commando has fled and in all probability, he will not dare to return. If he fails to honor the his date/s with the court/s, he has properties which could be seized. Such seizure could include all such properties he may have transferred to his close relative/s. Pakistan has been suffering from cancer caused by the medieval bearded brigades in one hand and and the guys in the uniform on the other and time has now come to take strong stands against these elements.

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Saeed Ahmed | 8 years ago | Reply All citizen have equal rights except when you and your cronies are out gallivanting around town in your Land Cruisers with hundreds of armed guards who bully and bulldoze ordinary citizens out of your way. This so called VIP Culture is nothing but thuggery and a way of terrorizing ordinary people. If you are really serious about what you are saying, put your money where your mouth is and banish this sickness forthwith.

Parvez | 8 years ago | Reply So why do you and your father live in Dubai / New York / London / Paris.......and come to Pakistan only to play politics ?........You'll and Musharraf both live in similar words so stop fooling the people.

Sodomite | 8 years ago | Reply For the party that did the NRO crying for justice is a terrible lie.

Faisal Afzal | 8 years ago | Reply Would have been interesting if he said that about Ayyan Ali.

jg | 8 years ago | Reply We also cannot afford a different pakistan for a commoner and sons of billionaire politicians

Saad | 8 years ago | Reply He would be well advised to ask his father the same questions. If only dear Momma was still around he could have asked her too. But then, he can ask his father about that too!

Voice of Pakistan | 8 years ago | Reply We can*t have one Pakistan for Bisma who died outside civil hospital in Karachi because of Zardari Junior VVIP protocol And one Pakistan for Asfa Zardari on whose royal visit to zoo the whole area for the subjevts is closed.

Haji Atiya | 8 years ago | Reply Bilawal should ask his dad to remove all those billboards of his family members and road blocks around and well beyond all his properties and then talk ! Oh, I forgot, his dad is enjoying 'one kind of Dubai' !

Syed | 8 years ago | Reply Some one please ask him about the rights of people living Tharparkar first ? Poor kids are dying every week under PPP Rule

Hatim | 8 years ago | Reply Just the same way that equal rights were provided to Bisma.

mirestan | 8 years ago | Reply After BBs murder your father Zerdari ruled Pakistan for 5 years. Why why Musharraf was not apprehended why now ? some thing fishy about your mothers killer and the person who gained most from her death is who ? please do not beat around the bush. Please stop this self pity approach.

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