Bilawal takes a dig at PTI chairman

Says PPP has faced ‘terrorists bigger than Imran Khan’

KARACHI:

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday said his party had faced terrorists and in comparison, PTI Chairman Imran Khan was almost nothing.
“The politics of one person [Imran] has created wedges among the judiciary, media and people,” he added while addressing a ceremony organised to celebrate the PPP’s victory in the local government elections in the Karachi Division.

Maintaining that Imran had resorted to political terrorism, Bilawal said the PPP was ready for elections and his party would defeat its rivals with the power of its votes.

The PPP chairman said similar to what the PPP had done in Karachi, his party would defeat political terrorists across the country with the strength of its ballots.

Taking a jibe at the higher judiciary for what the ruling coalition believes to be facilitating the PTI chief, Bilawal said the judges had turned the law into a joke.

“The judiciary shouldn’t turn into [Imran’s] Tiger Force,” he çontinued.

The PPP chairman termed the fresh local government elections as “historic”.

He added that the people of the province by placing their confidence in the slogan of “Sindh for all” had created history.

Bilawal noted that from Kashmore to Karachi, the “jiyalas” of the PPP would be in power.

The PPP chairman expressed his gratitude to the people of Sindh for his party’s victory throughout the province, including Karachi.

He pointed out that earlier, Karachi was dominated by politics of division.
He added that the die-hard activists of the PPP had buried the politics of hatred and division in Karachi.

“Sindh was one and always remain so,” he continued.

Bilawal pledged to end the politics of hatred and division across the country.
“We were the binding chains between the provinces earlier and continue to remain so,” he added.

The PPP chairman said the local government elections in Karachi were only a sign of developments to come.

He added that Karachi had ousted the PTI from the city in the local government elections and pretty soon, the whole country would be rid of these political terrorists.

The PPP chairman paid tributes to the martyrs, whose sacrifices had made it possible for the party to achieve so much.

He pointed out that when his grandfather, PPP founder and former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged, the party activists, unlike how the PTI responded to its chairman’s arrest, had only set themselves ablaze instead of destroying public as well as private properties.

He noted that his maternal uncle, Murtaza Bhutto, was murdered in Karachi as well but nobody had taken the law into their hands.

He said his father, PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, had spent 12 years in prison but no chief justice of Pakistan had taken suo motu notice of that.

He further pointed out that nobody had said “Good to see you” to his grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto when he appeared before courts.

The PPP chairman pointed out that when his mother, former premier Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, the party activists were enraged enough to storm the GHQ and the corps commander’s house but they had stopped themselves from crossing this red line.

Bilawal maintained that the political terrorists were still “favourites” of some and that was why no action had been taken against them despite the mayhem they had caused across the country.