Pakistan

Bilawal doesn’t see Imran as PM by next year

PPP chief says his party wants new election soon; lambasts PTI govt’s disastrous economic policies

Our Correspondent November 16, 2019

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has claimed that the country would have a new prime minister by the next year and the current government led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would not complete its five-year term.

"A new prime minister will be in office by the next year. I am certain that Imran Khan will not be the prime minister [in 2020]. Pakistan will have a new prime minister the next year," Bilawal said on Friday while addressing media after a meeting of the PPP core committee.

Bilawal said the PPP desired new election but did not want that one selected government was replaced by another selected government.

In reference to Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam’s (JUI-F) Azadi March that concluded on Wednesday without achieving its professed goal that is ousting Prime Minister Imran Khan, Bilawal said the chances of the prime minister’s removal had increased rather than decreasing.

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Bilawal, however, added that the JUI-F had not informed the opposition parties’ Rahbar Committee – which was holding talks with the government on oppositions’ demands – about its Plan B and C in detail.

"The Rahbar Committee was not informed in detail about [JUI-F chief] Fazlur Rehman’s talks with the Chaudhry brothers [who were mediating on behalf of the government] and the Plan B and C of the Azadi March," he said. Bilawal claimed that his party had fulfilled its promises to the JUI-F.

To a question, Bilawal said the PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had not been allowed to meet his physician since his incarceration in connection with a fake accounts case. "[However] Zardari sahib has not applied for bail," he said.

Bilawal said the PPP would present its agenda on its founding day. "On our founding day, we will hold a jalsa in Azad Kashmir," he said. The PPP chief said India had turned the occupied Kashmir into a big jail since August 5. “The PPP would not stop raising its voice for the people of Kashmir.

He lambasted the PTI government for not having an economic plan.

"The economic situation has been worsening since July 2018 when the PTI came into power. The common people have to pay the price in the form of new taxes," he added.

COMMENTS (1)

Naseer A. Chishti | 5 years ago | Reply The government led by PM Imran khan will not only complete its 5 year tenure but will get an overwhelming success and simple majority in the parliament in 2023 elections. First time ever in the nation's history after Hazrat Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah RA, Pakistan got a leader who cannot be beaten at any international forum on legal issues; and Pakistan climbed to a top moral position in the world under leadership of Imran Khan. Let me to mention, that in the past US and European countries were effective to damage Pakistan through India and Afghanistan, even through Arab countries and Iran to some extent; but due to optimum quality leadership of Imran khan, no one in the world is legally in position even the UNO to attack Pakistan in any sphere. I personally feel that political parties in Pakistan are apposing PM Imran Khan only due to their illiterate followers and corruption stakeholders.

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