HYDERABAD:
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday reiterated his party’s determination to thwart all foreign conspiracies against the country, including its nuclear and missile programme, and urged the government to desist from unilateral decisions. to create divisions with allies.
Addressing a massive public gathering at Garhi Khuda Bux in Larkana district to mark the 17th death anniversary of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal warned that he was finding it difficult to convince his party’s lawmakers that They will support all government laws.
Bilawal highlighted the achievements of former PPP prime ministers, his late grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his late mother Benazir Bhutto, including the country’s nuclear program and missile technology programme.
“The PPP will fail in all conspiracies targeting nuclear and missile programs,” the PPP chairman said while commenting on recent US sanctions against companies involved in Pakistan’s missile programme. He said both the projects were gifts from the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto.
“Imran Khan [Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) founder] “It’s just an excuse, the real target is Pakistan’s atomic program and missile technology,” he added, referring to statements of support for the PTI founder by some officials in the incoming US administration of Donald Trump.
He asked the PTI founder to clarify that those who make statements in its favor “every other day are not those who are against Pakistan’s atomic and missile technologies programme.” He added that those who supported Imran turned out to be strong supporters of the Israeli Zionist regime.
“This party [PTI] and Imran himself should condemn these people,” Bilawal told the crowd. He argued that such support gave the impression that a lobby wanted to install a government in Pakistan that could compromise on everything for the sake of power.
The PPP chairman said that the powers that be had no concern about democracy, human rights or prisoners in Pakistan, but instead wanted to attack Pakistan’s nuclear programme. He said that “Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s biggest crime before the world powers was the Islamic atomic bomb.”
He also highlighted his mother’s three-decade political struggle, saying those who planned her assassination wanted to install puppets in Pakistan who could influence the manifesto, ideology and even the rights of the people, as well as the country’s national security. and its atomic program.
Coalition ties
Bilawal reminded the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) that the ruling party’s electoral mandate prevented it from taking unilateral decisions. “The only mandate that the Government has is to make collective decisions through Parliament,” he stressed.
Bilawal said the PPP did not ask for power or ministries when it supported the PML-N to form a government at the Centre. He added that their singular demand was an equitable Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) for all provinces, particularly the less developed ones.
He said the PML-N had not implemented the agreement with the PPP to support the Shehbaz Sharif-led government. “It is becoming difficult for me to force my MNAs again and again to go to the [National] Assembly to complete the quorum and support each bill that [PML-N] presented,” he warned.
The PPP leader warned that the government could not function with the current form of governance because it was incumbent upon it to find consensus-based solutions through parliament to the challenges facing the country.
He briefly addressed the contentious issue of the proposed construction of six new canals from the Indus river and conveyed that the lower riverine province of Sindh had been strongly criticizing the Centre’s canal policy.
He appealed to President Asif Zardari to help the government realize that decisions taken with consensus turn out to be powerful decisions. Bilawal believed that no single party had the mandate or power to address all internal and external problems alone.
In a laconic speech, President Zardari attempted to allay the concerns of smaller provinces, stating that they would not be deprived of their fair share of water and gas. “I want to tell my friends that they don’t need to worry about it,” he said.
“All provinces will receive what corresponds to them,” said the president. “Sindhu [river] He will be given what is Sindhu’s right. There can be no other decision and nothing less than this one,” the president told those gathered.
He said that the world was progressing and “modern things” were proving to be beneficial for humans, adding that he believed that things that were good for humans and political parties would also be good for Pakistan.
