PPP won’t tolerate political persecution: Bilawal

says the PML-N government is using state machinery to sabotage even a small gathering organised by the party

LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will not tolerate political persecution and the government is using state machinery to sabotage even a small gathering organised by the party, chairperson of the PPP Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari warned on Monday.

Speaking with media persons here, Biawal said that despite securing permission, elements working at the behest of the Punjab government ransacked a small public gathering of the PPP in Sialkot.



“Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is incapable of tolerating even our minor (political) events. “What action will it take when the PPP holds sizable events across Punjab,” he asked rhetorically.

He was referring to a small public gathering which had been planned by former federal minister Firdous Ashique Awan and party workers in Sialkot.

Bilawal insisted that PPP was being victimised and its political workers were being attacked all over Punjab “All our events are being barred,” he maintained.

The PML-N government, he said, had failed on almost all fronts.

“The PML-N government has failed to addresses energy and water crisis. Law and order situation is still precarious and unemployment rate has increased during the tenure of the incumbent government. But the rulers are trying to conceal facts,” he said.



Terming the Supreme Court’s verdict on Panama Papers case sensitive and crucial, the PPP chairperson said that the entire Pakistani nation was awaiting the verdict.

He said that the PML-N government could hardly be able to face his party in the upcoming general elections. The PPP, he said, would resist all efforts by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other terrorist outfits to field candidates, adding that the PML-N and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had extensively facilitated criminal elements to run their election campaigns in the 2013 general elections.

Commenting on the death sentence awarded to Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadav, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said that although he did not subscribe in principle to death penalty but Yadav’s case was an exception.



Responding to another query on possibility of future electoral alliances, he said that he would not comment on the possibility of any alliance between the PPP and PTI in the 2018 general elections.

PPP Punjab leaders Qamar Zaman Kaira, Nadeem Afzal Chan and other party leaders also attended the event.