Staff Report
GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday said that the establishment’s decision to remain apolitical has politically orphaned selected PTI chief Imran Khan and the likes of him.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was addressing a gathering in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh held to mark the 15th death anniversary of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. He alleged that Imran Khan and his cronies have resorted to the politics of violence after not getting a response from the establishment. “This is why there is a hue and cry at Imran Khan’s residence in Bani Gala,” Bilawal said.
Bilawal also said the PTI would keep pushing, inciting, and seeking the establishment’s help but vowed that PPP would ensure to block any unconstitutional move.
“Imran Khan, in his speeches at PTI rallies, has been using words that are tantamount to Article 6 and inciting the establishment to support him,” Bilawal maintained, asking Imran Khan to return to parliament as neither he nor his party “could bear” what’s coming to them.
The foreign minister said he did not want his political opponents to endure what his party workers had to endure.
Imran Khan responsible for Pakistan’s woes: Bilawal Bhutto
In his address, Bilawal also linked the uptick in terrorism to Imran Khan’s election as the prime minister and criticized the PTI chief for trying to negotiate with terrorists during his tenure.
“Benazir Bhutto lost her life-fighting terrorism. We also launched operations against terrorists, but who gave Imran Khan permission to negotiate with terrorists?” Bilawal asked.
Bilawal asked upon whose authorization the ex-PM “bowed down to the terrorists and indulged in talks with them.” “Who freed terrorists from prisons? Who allowed terrorists to live in the country and neither accept the Constitution nor lay down their arms?”
Bilawal said the coalition government would use all-out measures and resources to break the back of terrorists.
Bilawal also said that during the PTI’s government, Pakistan suffered the worst economic crisis, and to save his seat, “PTI chief committed a suicide attack on the country’s economy.”
Bilawal added that “for the first time,” Pakistan is facing a threat of economic default, but the coalition government steered the country out of it.
