KARACHI: Criticising the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for not allying against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Peoples’ Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari Saturday said the Imran-founded party had never tried to block Shehbaz Sharif’s way to the Prime Minister’s Office through holding political talks with the PPP.
“Shehbaz Sharif would also have to extend thanks to the PTI after becoming the PM,” Bilawal said while taking a dig at the PTI in a press conference here.
“The PTI founder may have decided not to fight against Shehbaz. We are giving votes to the party which approached us [to form the government in the Centre],” Bilawal said. it is to be mentioned here that Bilawal was the foreign minister during Shehbaz’s previous stint as PM.
The PPP and PML-N entered into an agreement with the Bilawal’s PPP set to support Shehbaz as the prime minister. However, his party will not be part of the federal cabinet.
Bilawal also commented on Imran Khan’s letter to the International Monetary Fund to block financial aid to Pakistan over alleged rigging in the February 8 nationwide elections. He was of the view that the letter has no importance rather it would expose PTI’s real face before the nation.
Bilawal’s comments came as he visited a PPP worker Abdul Rehman’s residence in Karachi’s Orangi Town who had been killed during the election-related violence.
Bilawal said that 12-year-old Abdul Rehman was killed after his family was threatened to stop supporting the PPP, adding that many party loyalists lost their lives in violent incidents in the run-up to the polls.
He also vowed to catch the culprits involved in the attacks and provide justice to the families of slain PPP workers. He said the PPP-led government in Sindh would not tolerate any kind of religious, ethnic, and sectarian terrorism.
