The core committee of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) decided on Wednesday to gear up efforts and create new issues to shift the media focus from the memo controversy onto the creation of new provinces, especially the creation of a Saraiki Province, to capture the party’s vote bank in Southern Punjab and lessen the impact created by recent campaigning by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leaders Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
A source told Pakistan Today that the meeting, which was held at Prime Minister’s House and was attended by the party’s Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for the first time, was of the view that the recent happenings on the political landscape had badly harmed the image of the party in particular and the government in general and there was a dire need to defuse the situation through proper media handling. “The meeting tasked Qamar Zaman Kaira, Dr Babar Awan and Jahangir Badar to counter the negative media criticism while Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has been asked to play his part in again raising the Saraiki Province issue to muster public support and shift the media focus away from the memo controversy and the precarious health condition of President Asif Ali Zardari,” said the source.
The source said the meeting also discussed the pressure tactics used by the establishment vis-à-vis the memogate scandal and Prime Minister Gilani was asked to play his role in defusing the situation between the civilian government and the security establishment.The source said that participants expressed their concern that the ailment of the president had further weakened the government and it was necessary for the prime minister to ensure that the government machinery looked effective and functional. The source said the meeting also expressed concern that the delay in the presidential address to the joint sitting of the parliament would be a setback for the party that had caused the media to speculate whether the establishment had warned him not to do so.
every thing is not good
Is this young boy an elected leader of a Political Party which claims to be a party of Pakistani people i.e. Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and if not who has given him the right to lead that party.
Quoting Jeremy Pakman BBC Journalist who was present in Bilawal's press conference after his mother's death, "Is this a political party or part of a family furniture which is handed down to you."
Bilawal's response was most pathetic, "This is how things are done in our part of the world."
My comment, "That is why this part of the world is poor where leadership is first hijacked and then plundered."
Just one correction.
The name of the BBC correspondent was Jeremy Paxman and NOT Jeremy Pakman as I have written. Apologies for wrongly writing the name.
Bilawal was elected unanimously by Central Executive Committee of Pakistan Peoples Party held in Naudero after Benazir's assassination. I do not understand why people forget facts so conveniently.
By the way who selected the central committee, members of a carefully appointed kitchen cabinet.
Pakistan Today please don't censor comments. They are decent but pointed.
Thank you Pakistan Today for releasing my comments on Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
Bhutto family treats PPP as their hereditary right to lead. Double standards – they cannot have democracy in the party, let alone the whole country! The poor, naive, uneducated – people keep going after them as a herd. Please wake up and get rid of these corrupt and selfish 'so called' leaders.
what abuot pml(n) and other parties if you do not like aparty this is your right.
PML (N) is no different.
what about our selfish army areal state dealers always playing with the country.
Yes they have done mistakes. But I have always held that one must not condemn an institution on account of the misdeeds of an individual.
There was a General who was quite active in this role in DHA Lahore and earned a reputation as Gen Z Zameen. (I did not want to name and shame the general and have therefore put the initials of his name.)
It was for Pakistan Army, acting as an institution, to reprimand him and take further appropriate action.
I am not sure if it actually happened.
so called biggest democratic party of pakistan ..i wonder how these experience Babas of PPP who just sit there in front of bilawal like he is a saint or somthing ..for God’s sake have some wisdom and courage to speak for truth …
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