Nawaz lost public support due to corruption: Bilawal

Claims PML-N chief will soon be entirely out of power

CHITRAL: Nawaz Sharif has lost people’s support because of bad governance and corruption, Chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Butto-Zardari said on Sunday.

Talking with media persons here, he said that Sharif would realise this after he lost the next general elections in 2018, adding that he (Nawaz) did not realise this. Bilawal said that Nawaz was under the illusion that his gatherings were massive because of misuse of bureaucracy and government machinery.

Commenting on a massive gathering on the GT Road to welcome Nawaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said that he was now free to muster public support and sympathies and plead his innocence in every way he deemed appropriate, but in time he would realise that everything he did was futile.

“He will soon be entirely out of power,” Bilawal said.

Responding to a question regarding the rising trend of attributing false accusations in national politics, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said that allegations and counter-allegations would greatly damage the national polity and this trend would keep women away from entering into mainstream national politics.

Stressing the need for strictly enforcing libel and defamation laws, he said that politics aside, everyone should demonstrate civility and decency in all matters.



When asked if he would contest elections from Chitral, he reminded the questioner that his family had historic links with Chitral and party workers had requested him to do so too, but this would be decided by the party’s high command.

Criticising Imran Khan, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said that it seemed that name-calling had become Khan’s second nature, adding that this was setting a bad and fatal precedent in national politics.

PPP, he said, never resorted to such indecent behaviour.

He said that this trend of mud-slinging and false accusations should immediately stop.

Referring to the parliamentary committee on Ayesha Gulalai’s charges against Imran Khan, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said that there was an urgent need to enforce laws against sexual harassment.

Youth, he said, was the most sensitive segment, needing urgent attention, adding that this was why the PPP had focussed on this in its party manifesto.

Earlier, several delegations, including lawyers and a team of Kalash women, also met him here during his stay here.

He said that he would advocate selecting Chitral as an alternative route for CPEC, broadening the trade route to include Central Asian countries and elevating the status of Mastuj sub-division to a district, adding that these suggestions had been included in PPP’s manifesto.

In the end, he said that he would separately visit Mastuj tehsil.