Rawalpindi: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari targetted and slammed the Imran Khan-led PTI government saying that the “puppet regime of political orphans” was crumbling.
Zardari was addressing a public rally to commemorate the 12th death anniversary of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The rally was held at Liaquat Bagh where Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb sucide attack during a PPP elction rally in 2007.
Geo News reported Bilawal as saying that he would complete the unfinished mission of his mother and ensure people were given their due rights. He said that there exist a leadership and economic crisis in Pakistan as political orphans were ruling the country.
“These are the same political orphans Benazir warned you about. Look at how they conduct their policies. They are cowards,” he said.
“They said Mian sahab (Nawaz Sharif) will never go abroad for treatment. But Mian sahab went abroad for medical treatment. They said President (Asif Ali) Zardari will never come out of jail. He is out of jail now too,” he added.
Bilawal urged the people to support him in ousting “this government of selected and political orphans as the people’s rule cannot be established without the PPP”.
Bilawal also acknowledged his grandfather, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was also the country’s former prime minister, for ensuring rights given to the labourers during his tenure.
“You are witness that they (political rivals) used to say a woman can never be the prime minister of a Muslim country. You saw how she became the first female head of state of a Muslim country,” said Bilawal.
Bhutto, who served twice as the prime minister — in 1988-1990 and 1993-1996 — was assassinated in a suspected suicide attack minutes after she addressed an election rally in Liaquat Park.
Her party and family accused the then-military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf of being involved in the assassination, a charge he denied. Musharraf, who has recently been sentenced to death by a special court for suspending the constitution and imposing a state of emergency in the country in 2007, also stands trial for Bhutto’s murder.
