Timely elections to ensure Imran gets no 'facilitators' in institutions: Bilawal

Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday said that timely elections will ensure Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan gets no ‘facilitators’ in national institutions.

"Imran wants to open the door of dictatorship so he can become the prime minister once again through the back door... he wanted elections to be held earlier so his facilitators in the establishment would ensure his success [in general elections]," he said while speaking to the media in Larkana.

The PPP chairman said that Imran's ‘facilitators’ have left the establishment, but they might be present in some other institution.

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Bilawal said that governments in the past did not complete their constitutional term but PPP ensured that it happens now. "First, from 2008 to 2013 then 2013 to 2018 and now again the parliament is going to complete its term in 2023," he added.

He said that Imran Khan was trying all the dirty tricks so that the parliament does not complete its tenure. "Despite floods, economic issues and unemployment, Imran wants parliament dissolved and stop the democratic progress," he further said.

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The PPP chief also visited the mausoleum of the Bhutto family’s martyrs in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh. He paid respects at the grave of slain PPP chairperson and former prime minister Shaheed Mohtarama Benazir Bhutto and laid a wreath and offered prayers.

He also laid wreaths at the graves of PPP founder and ex-prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Begum Nusrat Bhutto, Shireen Amir Begum, Mir Murtaza Bhutto and Mir Shahnawaz Bhutto, and prayed for their eternal peace.

Bilawal also prayed for the development and prosperity of the country.