KARACHI: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Political Communication Shahbaz Gill has claimed that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is looking to strike a deal with the United States (US) to form a government.
Addressing a press conference in Karachi today (Saturday), the Special Assistant said that Bilawal was going to take his CV (curriculum vitae) to Washington in a bid to get a job.
“After reaching America, Bilawal will urge the US government to help him come into power, saying he is ready to do whatever they ask of him,” he said, adding that the PTI-led government will never allow Bilawal to succeed in his plans.
He further said that during former president (retired) Gen Pervez Musharraf’s tenure, 13 drone attacks were carried out in Pakistan, while during PPP’s regime, the country witnessed a whopping 340 attacks.
Gill also alleged that former United States (US) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped Musharraf and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto strike a deal to allow drone attacks on Pakistan.
“PPP shift the blame on Musharraf for Pakistan having provided military bases to America. Whereas it is PPP who put its interests above national interests,” Gill added.
Gill’s statement comes two days after Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa had said Pakistan would not give airbases to the US if the government has decided against it.
The army chief was responding to questions posed by journalists after he had attended a military and intelligence briefing to parliamentarians on national security and the Afghanistan situation.
“You should have put this question to the government. Why have you asked this from me?” Gen Bajwa said when first questioned on the military’s position on the matter. Pakistan has publicly refused to give military bases to the US for operations inside Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign forces from the war-torn country.
