Bilawal fires broadside at Sharif brothers

Says the ‘Godfather and Chota Don’ are out to protect offshore assets

KARACHI: Firing another broadside at the incumbent PML-N government, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that the Sharif brothers are trying to protect their offshore assets before the joint investigation team (JIT) instead of working for the development of the country.

“Godfather [Nawaz Sharif] and Chota Don [Shehbaz Sharif] are busy in protecting their offshore assets before the JIT and are not concerned about the country,” said Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while talking to newsmen after inaugurating the Manzil Flyover near Quaidabad in Karachi.

He declared untrue the complaints of PML-N that they had been held accountable during the tenures of his mother Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.



Labelling Nawaz Sharif as ‘Godfather’ and Shehbaz Sharif as ‘Chota Don’, Bilawal said, “Every time the PML-N was about to be held accountable during PPP’s tenure, they colluded with the establishment to remove the PPP government.”

Upon the statement about the PML-N leadership facing accountability during Musharraf’s tenure, the PPP chairman said, “They had signed a document and fled the country.”

Turning his guns on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), Bilawal said he met with the young doctors who informed him that PTI was destroying the health services set up in the province.

Bilawal said, "He [Imran Khan] is only confined to statements on Twitter."

The PPP chairman expressed complete satisfaction over the performance of Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and his entire team, while lambasting PTI over its performance in K-P.

He lauded the progress in Sindh, including Karachi, under his party’s government. He highlighted that sanitation work was improving and multiple roads were being built in the city.

Bilawal said, “If progress continued at the same pace, his party would surely secure its share in Karachi in the next elections.”

Earlier, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that with the inauguration of Manzil Pump Flyover at National Highway the flow of vehicular traffic, particularly heavy traffic of industrial areas, from airport to National Highway would be smooth and signal free.

The CM said that from airport to Manzil Pump the road has been made signal free.



“This flyover has been constructed at a cost of Rs514.917 million within a period of three months which is a record,” he said congratulating Local Government Minister Jam Khan Shoro, Project Director Niaz Soomro and his team.

Criticising his political opponents, he said that the opponents of PPP were feeling insecure because his government has launched mega infrastructure schemes in the city and most of them have either been inaugurated or would be inaugurated by the end of this month.

Briefing Bilawal, Shoro said that the work on Manzil Pump Flyover started on March 8, 2017 and was completed within three months. The length of the bridge is 560 metres, including 2,500-metre-bridge and 310-metre-ramp.

The chief minister said that the work on Drigh Road underpass and Submarine Chowrangi underpass was going on a war footing basis. “We would inaugurate Drigh Road underpass by the end of this month,” he said, adding that it is a big breakthrough in the development of infrastructure of Karachi.

He was of the view that Sharea-e-Faisal has not only been reconstructed but widened with alteration in Baloch Colony flyover. This has not only uplifted the face of the road but has made the flow of traffic easier.