PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was not trained yet, his father and party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said as his son advises senior politicians to quit and give new faces a chance.
“Bilawal is not completely trained and now we are training him,” he said in an interview with Hamid Mir on his show Capital Talk which was aired on Geo News on Thursday.
When the host pressed him on his answer, Zardari replied in a negative. “He [Bilawal] will take time.”
Zardari agreed that Bilawal was more talented, educated, and better-spoken than him. “But experience is experience.”
In his recent speeches, the PPP chairman has reiterated his demand for giving the younger generation a chance to lead the country. At one of the party’s conventions, he also said that senior politicians should sit at home or pray in mosques.
When asked if the PPP would stage any “game” for themselves as they did in the past for the Pakistan Democratic Movement, he said: “Now we will have it for us and Pakistan. Firstly, I want to tell you that politics is not my necessity because Benazir Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and hundreds of our workers embraced martyrdom so we have debt on them and I am in politics to pay that debt.”
Many leaders of the previous government have openly spoken about the role of former president Asif Ali Zardari in engaging all the political parties before and after the no-confidence motion.
He was sure that elections would be held on February 8, saying that for the same reason, his party was running campaigns.
In response to a query, he claimed that Pakistan would have suffered a lot if Imran Khan had remained in power
He alleged that Pakistan was isolated due to the PTI chairman and blamed his government for damaging the economy. “If we had not ousted him, he had an RO election and there was an army man with them who was in RO election mood. So it would have been a programme till 2028.”
Zardari said that it was the PPP’s cause to oust Imran Khan and all parties had access to it.
According to the PPP co-chairman, Pakistan’s situation would have been worse if the no-confidence motion against Khan had been taken back. He added that Khan had defaulted on everything.
“The experience was difficult with the coalition government. I told many things to Shehbaz but he did not accept it because of which Pakistan suffered,” Zardari said and spoke about the selling of sugar which was later on smuggled.
He went on to add that none of the parties can take all the seats, stressing the need for having a long-term approach.
“It is not necessary that the PML-N would be leading,” he said while responding to a query related to the ‘difficult experience’ in the past 16 months.
He added that if his party got the power than the finance minister would be from their party.
He revealed that Farhatullah Babar has resigned from the secretary general post, however, he added that the senior leader would continue to serve the party on human rights issues.
