Bilawal slams PML-N over power failures in Ramazan

Says Takht-e-Raiwind getting uninterrupted supply while Sindh suffers blackout

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his ministers for “failing to control load-shedding in the country even in the month of Ramazan”.

The PPP chairman was addressing party leaders and workers at an Iftar hosted by the party’s Sindh chapter at the Chief Minister House in Karachi.

He told partymen that people were being tormented by load-shedding and those protesting against it were being labelled thieves just to hide the government failure to generate electricity.



“Load-shedding is happening in the entire country, not just in some corners, and protests are also being staged across the country,” he said.

Bilawal said there was no electricity in Sindh while Takht-e-Raiwind was getting uninterrupted power supply.

He pledged that his party would end load-shedding on coming to power in the next general election. He said the PPP had devised plans to ensure fulfilment of the country’s power needs.



The young PPP leader also lashed out at the ruling party for its ‘failure’ on the foreign policy front. He regretted that Modi launched genocide in Kashmir, but no effort was made to exert international pressure on the ‘Butcher of Kashmir’.

He also lamented that relations with Iran and Afghanistan had been brought to an all-time low under Nawaz Sharif.

Bilawal was also critical of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, saying that an accountant was running the country and presented a budget for the rich while totally ignoring the poor.



“The PML-N has extended incentives to the iron and poultry industries, and people know very well who is running the cartels of these businesses,” he said.

“Today the PML-N is raising a hue and cry over the Panamagate probe, forgetting that it was Nawaz Sharif who had initiated false cases against Benazir Bhutto and dragged her to the courts,” he alleged.

Pointing out to the 50 million countrymen living below the poverty line, the PPP chairman said that Sharif had failed to create jobs during his tenure, and the country had been thrown into unemployment, poverty and load-shedding.



He called Sharif ‘incapable’ of managing 200 million people, and warned the ruling party that the PPP would not allow rigging in the 2018 general election and defeat them.

The Iftar party was also attended by senior party leaders, MNAs, MPAs, senators and provincial minister's. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, PPP Sindh President Nisar Khuhro and former chief minister Qaim Ali Shah also addressed the gathering.