Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman and Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, on Saturday strongly condemned allegations made by the former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan wherein he claimed former president Asif Ali Zardari had plotted to assassinate him.
In a series of tweets on Saturday, Foreign Minister and Zardari’s son Bilawal Bhutto said that it was the PPP and its leadership – including him – whom terrorist outfits had threatened by name.
But it was Imran who was making false accusations against his father, former president Zardari,
“All of this will be considered if any attack were to take place against myself and my father or my party,” Bilawal said.
Zardari’s struggle against terrorists
The PPP chief, whose mother and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto had been twice targeted by terrorists – losing her life in the second of those attacks, said Imran’s statements have only increased the severity of threats to his father, his family, and his party.
Responding to Imran Khan’s claim that Asif Zardari has hired some terrorist outfit to knock him out, he said, “We take them seriously given our history.”
“His latest allegations that my family has any association to a terrorist organization or that we would use them to cause him harm not just defies logic but exposes us all to an increased threat,” he said.
“In the past, Imran Khan threatened my father that he was ‘in the crosshairs of his gun.’ His and his associates’ history as both sympathizers and facilitators of terrorists are well documented,” Bilawal said.
Pointing to Imran’s wife, Bushra bibi, Bilawal said that Imran must realize every time his wife has a dream, he could not just come on to television and make false accusations about people.
