KARACHI: The Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that he is ready to go to jail with all other politicians but will not be afraid of this system in any way.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday, he lashed out at the government, warning it that those who were not afraid of dictators will not be afraid of a cricketer.

He said his party had been criticising this government since day one and its facilitators. He said that political parties could not raise their voices in the parliament as it had been rendered a "rubber stamp" one.

The PPP chairman said that the government was failing on all fronts, including foreign and economic policy, as a "selected" government had been imposed on Pakistan.

Bilawal said that the government had gone so far in their "revenge policy that they filed sedition charges" against Azad Jammu and Kasmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider. "The country can no longer bear the burden of this government."

Bilawal, responding to the federal government's Pakistan Island Development Authority Ordinance, said: "No Pakistani who believes in the Constitution can tolerate that someone, through a presidential ordinance, overnight, tries to take over the islands of Balochistan and Sindh." "We strongly condemn this act," Bilawal said.

The PPP chairman demanded that the government withdraw this unconstitutional ordinance. "Through such immature acts of a cricketer, the federation is damaged."

Bilawal said that the "whole" province had unanimously rejected the islands' ordinance. "We will not allow you to take a single piece of land through an unconstitutional ordinance," he maintained.