KARACHI: Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Wednesday that coward” PTI Chairman Khan’s party lawmakers would not quit the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab assemblies.
Addressing the 55th foundation day of PPP at Nishtar Park in Karachi, Bilawal said that his party would win big in the second phase of Local Government (LG) polls, and clinch the mayorship of Karachi.
The PPP chairman said that PPP is a national party that believes in politics of unity rather than hate and division.
Speaking about the murder of his mother, Bilawal said that didn’t seek vengeance. “But that is not the politics were taught to do,” he said, adding that his mother always taught him to indulge in politics of love and of service to the public.
“The best revenge,” Bilawal said, will be democracy and service to the people.
“This is why, after coming into power, President Asif Ali Zardari passed the 18th Amendment to devolve powers to the provinces, and released the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award.”
Bilawal said his party has always done the politics within the ambits of the Constitution.
In an apparent jibe at PTI Chairman Imran Khan, PPP Chairman said institution’s apolitical stance has got “puppet” politicians worrying about their future.
“The institution has accepted its mistake. But now, they [‘puppet politicians’] are worried that if the institution has become neutral, then what will become of their politics.
He said “chaos” was being spread in the country to save “watch thief” Khan, his sister Aleema Khan and Farah Gogi from accountability.
Bilawal said when the PTI was “faizyab”, the party defeated PPP in its stronghold of Lyari and “stole” the mandate of the people.
Bilawal said that “coward” PTI Chairman Khan’s party lawmakers would not quit the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab assemblies.
“If you want to resign, then go ahead. The PPP is ready to face you; PPP is not afraid of ‘puppets’ and ‘selected actors’,” Bilawal said.
Bilawal claimed that Khan was “lying” when he said that his party’s lawmakers would resign from both assemblies as he is notorious for going back on his word.
“Don’t you remember”, he told the crowd, “that after PTI resigned from the National Assembly and the by-polls were set to take place, they moved the courts and plead that their resignations were just a political stunt”.
Taking a jibe at Khan for cutting his long march short, Bilawal said: “He fled from Pindi. The coward beat a hasty retreat just like he did at the time of no-confidence motion.”
Bilawal told Khan that if he decides to resign from the assemblies, then the PPP and its “jiyalas” were ready to face his party. “We’re not afraid of you,” he vowed.
At the outset of his address, Bilawal thanked the people of Karachi for coming out in huge numbers as the party had decided to hold the founding day at different districts instead of a central one due to floods.
Bilawal paid glaring tributes to his mother, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and his maternal grandfather, ex-premier Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, for their services to the country.
