RAWALAKOT: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has claimed that the people of Kashmir will not follow a ‘puppet regime’, referring to PTI-led federal government.
Speaking during a campaign rally in Azad Kashmir’s Rawalakot, the PPP Chairman said, “We must get this message across to Islamabad that the people of Kashmir will decide their future on their own,” adding that this was PPP’s policy.
He also criticized Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying that the premier promised to the people of Kashmir he would be their ambassador but instead became a lawyer for Kulbhushan.
The PPP chairman, strongly objecting to the passing of The International Court of Justice (Review and Re-consideration) Bill, 2020 in the National Assembly, claimed that the parliament was not taken into confidence before the bill was passed.
“If Imran Khan wishes to give Kulbhushan an NRO, he can go ahead. However, PPP will never be your partner in crime,” he said. He further criticize the government, saying that the people of Pakistan “are being made to bear the burden of the government’s failures and its slogan for ‘change’.”
He said that whereas occupied Kashmir is ruled by Modi, where Kashmiris are fighting Modi’s oppression, the “people of Azad Kashmir are facing Imran Khan’s inflation tsunami”.
He went on to say, “This cowardly puppet has actually become a security risk. The Kashmiri people will send a message on July 25 that they reject the puppet.” He claimed that not only will there be a prime minister in Azad Kashmir from PPP, but the party will also have a prime minister in Pakistan.
AJK legislative assembly elections
The 11th General Elections of Azad Jammu and Kashmir will be held on July 25, the region’s election commission had announced earlier this month.
According to the schedule announced by Chief Election Commissioner retired Justice Abdul Rasheed Sulehria, the nomination papers will be filed by the candidates before the returning officers on or before June 6 up till 4pm while the scrutiny of nomination papers will be conducted the very next day am onwards and the lists of validly nominated candidates will be publicised on the same day.
