Bilawal asks jiyalas to gear up for anti-govt drive

Holds PTI govt responsible for high inflation and rendering people unemployed

HYDERABAD:

Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has urged his party supporters to gear up for a protest movement against the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) government.

“We need to awaken the jiyalas in the country if we have to save Pakistan,” he emphasised while addressing a public meeting in Khairpur district on Sunday.

The PPP Sindh chapter has announced a four-week long protest movement against the PTI government.

The movement, party’s Sindh president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro informed at a press conference in Hyderabad on Sunday, would start from September 5.

Addressing the party supporters, Bilawal unleashed salvos of criticism against Prime Minister Imran Khan.

“He [PM Imran] has left no stone unturned to drown the people in the tsunami of inflation, unemployment and poverty which are all-time high. But Khan sahab is celebrating the three years of destruction in Pakistan.”

He said the PTI government had been denying democratic, human and economic rights to the people.

Bilawal went on to blame the premier for allegedly robbing the rights of all provinces, pointing towards Sindh’s stance over the National Finance Commission Award and alleged attempts of the PTI government to roll back the 18th constitutional amendment. “Injustice with one province is equal to injustice with Pakistan.”

He accused PM Imran of keeping the Sindh and Balochistan provinces deprived of their natural resources.

“The people of the province which produces gas, whether it is Sindh or Balochistan, have the first right on those resources,” he said citing the constitution. “This is our right. We aren’t asking for any favour.”

The PPP chairman blamed PM Imran for making millions of employed people redundant under the “PTI-IMF economic policies”.

He referred to the Supreme Court’s order which nullified the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Ordinance, 2009, and Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Act, 2010, and announced that his party would go in appeal against the judgment.

“A strange decision has come from the court. We will go in appeal.”

He also commented on the Sindh High Court’s decision which made the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) dysfunctional and saw a conspiracy behind its closure saying the commissions in other provinces were operating.

“Only in one province the commission has been padlocked and that province’s youth are being deprived of jobs.”

The PPP leader reiterated the accusation on PTI’s federal government for depriving Sindh of its share of water. He said the federal government had been unjust with the lower riparian province.

“We are criticised that Tharparkar lacks water supply while Karachi and Thatta also face the same situation. But if you keep stealing our water then how can people of Tharparkar and Karachi not remain thirsty.”