PPP will support institutions if govt confronts them: Bilawal

There will be stiff resistance against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, says PPP leader

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said his party will support constitutional institutions in case of a confrontation with the government.

There will be stiff resistance against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and strong support for institutions in the event of conflict, Bilawal said in a statement issued on Thursday.

His remarks came in the wake of PML-N leader Nehal Hashmi's controversial statements against the judiciary and JIT investigating PM Nawaz Sharif and his family over his offshore investments.

Hashmi’s threatening speech at an event in Karachi on May 28 drew instant reaction from the Supreme Court, with Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar taking suo motu notice and summoning the PML-N leader to appear in person before the implementation bench supervising the work of the Panamagate JIT.



“You are on duty today. Remember, you will be retiring tomorrow. We will make your life and [those of] your family members miserable in Pakistan,” Hashmi was seen telling an audience invisible in the short video clip.

“Our leadership suffered judicial murders and we took bodies but we never indulged in confrontation with institutions,” the PPP leader claimed. “We sacrificed our elected prime ministers and governments and still accepted decisions of the institutions."

He cautioned the prime minister and his party that the PPP will not tolerate any attack on institutions to save the latter from accountability.