GARHI KHUDA BUX: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari described the selected politicians as a story of the past and said that the future belongs to the people adding that together we have a lot of work to do during the next 15 years. We have to bury lies, corruption and the politics of the selected forever.
While addressing a huge public meeting held on the 15th martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto at Garhi Khuda Bux, the PPP Chairman paid rich tribute to the Daughter of the East and the first elected Prime Minister of the Islamic world.
He said that she was a patriotic leader. She was the leader not only of Pakistan but of the world. She wanted a Pakistan for all. She believed in the politics of solidarity not hatred and unity not division. Some elements thought that the killing of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto will stop her journey of struggle, but even after 15 years of this tragedy, there is an ocean of masses here.
Chairman PPP said that we have to bury the politics of lies and corruption forever and eradicate the politics of puppets. We have always used the democratic weapon to fight Musharraf and his puppets. President Zardari removed Musharraf like a fly from milk and today we proudly say that Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto is still there while Musharraf has gone into the dustbin of history.
Pakistan’s youngest Foreign Minister said that due to the failures, ineptitude and incompetence of the selected, Pakistan was becoming isolated in the world, and was associated with extremists and terrorism. He said that the saddest situation was that we were not even able to defend Kashmir. He questioned that I am asking who gave the permission to the selected to negotiate with these terrorists.
He said that without the permission of the families of the martyrs, the people and the parliament, who had given the permission to negotiate with the terrorists? Who was the one who took out the terrorists from the jails?
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that President Asif Ali Zardari removed the person from power with the power of Jiyalas who was conspiring to attack the constitution, trample the rights of the provinces, undo the 18th amendment, encroaching the islands of Sindh and Balochistan and ruining the country economically.
He said that in the country’s history, this selected prime minister was not removed by the army or the judiciary, but through a no-confidence motion. He (Imran Khan) is giving the credit to US President Biden instead of President Asif Ali Zardari and Jiyalas.
But he should know that it is not White House but Bilawal House who conspired to expel you. The Selected as well as its facilitators were seen off through a democratic move, he added. The PPP Chairman said that the remnants of the selected and Musharraf are now a story of the past, the future belongs not to them but to the Jiyalas and the people. We have brought the country out of crises in the past, now only PPP can bring Pakistan out of difficulties.
He said that if the prestige of Pakistan is to be raised in the world then only PPP has done this work in the past and is still doing this work today. He said that PPP will eliminate terrorism in the future. We will definitely defeat the terrorists, but we need to account for how this was allowed to happen, how we are repeating this sin once again, the public should account for why terrorism is rising again, he added.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari emphasized that his opponents should first become human beings, then become politicians. Because Pakistan will survive, then they can fight for the prime minister’s chair.
Addressing the workers, the PPP Chairman said that apart from expelling the selected prime minister, it is also their great success that the country’s army chief stood up in uniform and gave a speech and believed that there used to be interference in and decided that we will not interfere in politics.
He said that the promise made to the country and the nation that the institutions will be non-political and bound by the constitution, then we have to ensure that this promise will be fulfilled and no one can stop the development of Pakistan, if the establishment also moves forward with the same determination.
The Foreign Minister said that Imran Khan is hiding in Bani Gala, but will continue his conspiracies and will try to push the army into politics. He said that Article 6 is being blatantly violated, because it is being asked to break the constitution, grab Imran’s finger and change his nappy. He further said that Imran Khan’s attempt is to mislead the establishment, to put pressure and to create such an environment but PPP is ready to fight any conspiracy.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari warned Imran Khan that this is the last warning for him to return to the Parliament and sit on his chair. If he calls himself a politician and a democrat, he has to sit in parliament and do his job. First come to the parliament, then the political parties will talk to you, we do not talk to strangers, come and contribute to the reforms for clean and transparent elections.
Referring to the recent flood devastation, the PPP Chairman said that it was a worst catastrophic tragedy. The floods caused $30 billion in damage, 10 percent of GDP was lost in the floodwaters, and more than 30 million flood victims, including 16 million children and 6 million pregnant women, are still waiting for aid. The infrastructure of 50% educational institutions in Sindh has been affected. He said that it was a spectacle that on one side one-third of the country is under water and on the other side there was a fight for the Takhat-e-Lahore, drama and a long march was going on GT Road.
The Foreign Minister said that the World Bank has decided to give a loan of 2 billion dollars for the rehabilitation of Sindh, which is the result of the timely efforts and hard work of the Chief Minister of Sindh during the floods. He further said that he has also discussed with the Chief Minister of Sindh that land reforms will be introduced in the province. Interest-free loans will be provided to the flood victims for construction of houses, while the slum victims will be given home ownership rights. Sanam Bhutto, Aseefa Bhutto Zardari and senior leadership of the Party from all the four provinces, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan were also present on the stage.
