Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday said that his father and party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was offered premiership in return for leaving his mother Benazir Bhutto.
Addressing a ceremony held on the occasion of Benazir’s 66th birth anniversary, Bilawal said that his father’s youth was stolen when he was sent behind bars for almost a decade. “Now when they arrested him, he smiled at them,” he said.
It is pertinent to mention here that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had arrested Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur on separate occasions in connection with the fake accounts case.
Bilawal said that most of the problems facing the country can be resolved by adopting the philosophy of his late mother in letter and spirit. “The need of the hour is to resolve conflicts through reciprocal reconciliation,” he said.
He said that Benazir had served the country till her last breath and had spent her life struggling for the rights and enlightenment of the people. “Ever since she stepped into politics, she was targeted but she faced everything bravely,” he said.
The PPP chief further said that Zardari was being targeted for fearlessly carrying on the mission of his mother.
