Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira has said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif cannot attain the status of great leaders like Bhuttos and should stop pretending to be late PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Addressing the oath-taking ceremony of newly-elected office-bearers of electronic media, Kaira said the leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz could not be PPP leaders who sacrificed their life for truth. He said Shahbaz wasted funds worth billions of rupees in the name of providing bread to the poor. “Around Rs 70 billion have been spent on a single road giving instilling an inferiority complex in the population of the remaining areas of Punjab,” he added. “When the PPP came to power in 2008, there was shortage of flour, but now Pakistan is exporting millions of tonnes of wheat,” he added. “There is a hue and cry over inflation, but price hike is a global phenomenon,” Kaira maintained. “The Sharif brothers say they did not sign a pact with the dictator but when the agreement came to the forefront, they said the contract lasted for five instead of ten years,” he added. Kaira said if President Zardari wanted, he could have become prime minister and could enjoy immense powers, but he did not and instead delegated all his powers to parliament. Criticising the Punjab chief minister, he said the loyalties of youth could not be bought through the distribution of laptops, but only by introducing good policies and offering sacrifices. To a question‚ Kaira said the Muttahida Qaumi Movement had its own point of view regarding the delimitation in Karachi.
Shahbaz should not pretend to be a ‘Bhutto’: Kaira
