NANNING (CHINA):
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari berated international community for pushing the country near total isolation and insisted that Pakistan needed “sympathy, support and assistance from the west” to help cope with “global recession and natural disasters”.
He was addressing the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (Icapp) in the Chinese town of Nanning.
He said that dialogue, deterrence, development and democracy “is the only roadmap to peace and that use of force alone will not defeat extremism unless it was tempered with political engagement and economic development”.
“We know that drones, raids and unilateral actions are not the answers,” he said.
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari is leading a five-member delegation.
The PPP chairman said that no other country “understood this war better than Pakistan, and no other country had paid such a heavy price”.
“My country lies wounded as a victim of terror. We don’t lack the will. We lack the means. We are neither complicit nor are we incompetent. We lack capacity to face the world’s enemies on our own. At a time of global recession and natural disasters, when Pakistan requires sympathy, support and assistance from the west we are met with suspicions and accusations”.
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said: “Sindh and Balochistan have yet again been inundated by heavy rains and flooding. Millions have been displaced once again and that placed an enormous burden on our people. However, we are a resilient nation and we will fully recover.”
Published in The Express Tribune, September 6th, 2011.
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there u go, self righteous people like imran khan and his followers lecturing others on morality. i think whatever he has said in this news piece is right. why r u being so personal in ur comments.just chill,guys and let the people decide who they want to see in the parliament in the next elections.
the next generation of a corrupt dynasty
who does he really think he is? Pakistan seems to be becoming a monarchy without actually being referred to as one with children of corrupt leaders carrying on with their forefathers corrupt dynasty if PPP was a real party then they would of elected a suitable leader who has any sort of knowledge of the "real" Pakistan instead of an immature and spoilt kid like Bilawal who's probably lived in Pakistan less then 10% of his life and has been given a status just because of his inheritance, no way does he deserve it and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't last two days in Pakistan without luxuries and his intense security we don't want to see filth and corruption spreading across generations all true Pakistanis will see that now is a time for change in a way which would rid of such dynasties and the next generation of corrupt rulers. If you want a new face and change then vote for Imran Khan and PTI.