- Bilawal restates PPP’s solo flight in general elections
- Khursheed says Trump’s tirade against Pakistan is ‘painful’
LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday said the party will not join hands with any other party for the coming general elections in the country.
Speaking to reporters at the wedding ceremony of the daughter of senior party leader Chaudhry Manzoor, he said the PPP will contest election with the support of its workers.
Expressing party’s commitment to the democratic process in the country, he said the PPP wants the federal government to complete its tenure; the democratic PPP will not harm democracy.
“We are not involved in Balochistan’s current political crisis; we don’t have a single member of assembly in the province,” Bilawal said as negated the PPP’s involvement in the anti-government provincial movement.
The young PPP chairman complained that the media does not highlight the activities of PPP-led Sindh government. The provincial government is providing the state-of-the-art medical facilities free of charge to the people of Sindh, he added.
He said the party leadership faced fake cases in the era of former dictators Ziaul Haq and Pervaiz Musharraf, but it was never afraid of any of the cases filed against it.
Senior party leaders Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Chaudhry Aitezaz Ahsan and others were also present on the occasion.
TRUMP’S STATEMENT AGAINST PAKISTAN ‘PAINFUL’: Meanwhile, talking to reporters at the ceremony, PPP leader and Opposition Leader in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah said that the United States President Donald Trump’s social media statement against Pakistan was “painful”.
It was not our war in Afghanistan, it was the US’s war which we fought with our money and life, he said.
He also blamed military dictators for country’s current crises, saying: “Terrorism was introduced during the era of Zia and Musharraf.”
