PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday advised Prime Minister Imran Khan to show “sportsman spirit” and fight the united opposition’s onslaught of the no-confidence motion, reiterating that the incumbent premier was seeking establishment’s support for staying in power.
“If you are brave so fight…if you have the courage to come in front. [PM Imran] is playing jalsa jalsa. We will accept that you are the prime minister when you will bring 172 members to parliament. But if you cannot, then go to Bani Gala and sit there,” he said while addressing a public gathering in Parachinar town of Kurram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
He added that the opposition was waiting from March 8 – the day when the united opposition submitted a no-confidence motion against PM Imran in National Assembly – to oust the government. Bilawal reiterated that the government won’t bow to the incumbent government while highlighting the party’s position during dictators' rule and insurgency in the country.
The PPP chairman said the public was “bearing the brunt” of the government’s “incompetence” in the form of high price of commodities. He alleged that the government did not present public issues in front of the International Monetary Fund. Bilawal further claimed that his party despite being the third-largest party in the country was delivering to the public and fighting against the government.
On foreign policy, Bilawal said that the incumbent appeared to be foreign-imposed, while accusing Imran of harming the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. “PM Imran's and India’s foreign policy are the same,” he said and lamented the words of PM Imran after Indian actions in IIOJK.
“[PM] Imran compromised himself in front of terrorists - in the dark of night without asking the people and parliament - and begged them to come and negotiate with us [government],” Bilawal said while criticising the government’s decision to offer an olive branch to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Moreover, Bilawal cast doubts at PM Imran’s source of funding and questioned the latter’s apparent properties in the United States. “He should stop speaking lies or else we will be forced to speak the truth,” he said, “You should stop telling lies or else we will expose the First Lady’s corruption.”
He also claimed that the government was involved in corruption in the Punjab government, including bribe paid by Usman Buzdar to become chief minister of Punjab.
“PM Imran, who brought the oil and diesel prices to record high, calls others diesel. This PM is diesel,” Bilawal said, “We know a little but that when [former ISI chief] Hamid Gul used to change his [PM Imran]’s nappy… when he became the toy of [another former ISI cheif] General [Ahmed Shuja] Pasha. You have started sucking shoes after getting done with polishing shoes.”
