Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto has said that the time has come to let the people decide the future of Pakistan, the people will have to be made partners in political, economic and social matters, adding: “I know how elections are conducted, but I also know that when the people of Pakistan wake up, no one can stop them.”
According to the press release issued by Media Cell Bilawal House, the PPP Chairman, while addressing the Balochistan High Court Bar Association, said that he feels the pain and suffering of the people of Balochistan. He said that my maternal grandfather Shaheed Zulfiqkar Ali Bhutto, who was the first elected Prime Minister of the country and also served as the President of the country, was hanged. “My mother, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, was the first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan as well as the first ever elected Prime Minister of Muslim Ummah, was martyred. My young maternal uncle Shaheed Shahnawaz Bhutto was poisoned. My (other) maternal uncle Mir Murtaza Bhutto was martyred outside his house and it was blamed on Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and her family under the conspircay, “target a Bhutto to chase other Bhutto, to topple Shaheed Bibi’s elected government,” he added.
“Today, when I see a mother in Balochistan sad because of her son’s target killing or disappearance, I understand her pain,” said Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and questioned that whether it is written in our destiny that the blood of the people of Pakistan, especially the people of Balochistan, is cheap. Has the system for 70 years brought justice to the citizens living in this country?
Chairman PPP said that general elections are going to be held on February 8 next year, and added: “We are being told that the one who became the prime minister for three times, now he will become the prime minister for the fourth time and after that he will get the country out of trouble. (And) the other person is the one who was the prime minister a few years ago, who had said that the protesting Hazara community in Balochistan were blackmailers, and who, being prime minister, considered the issue of missing persons unimportant, and liked to call himself a youth leader despite being 70 years old.” He questioned whether these people are the options of the people of Pakistan, Balochistan and the country?
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari urged that those politicians who made our blood cheap should not be given another chance, adding that let the people decide the future of Pakistan. “I also know that when the people and the youth take a decision, no power in the world can reverse it. I request you to surprise them all on February 8, use your voting power, come out in large numbers, and don’t leave the fate of the country to 2 people,” he added.
“My objection is not at all that they have become elders,” said Chairman PPP, adding that age does not matter, you can adopt a new style of politics for this country even when you are old, and you can be interested in the same old style of politics even when you are young. He emphasized that we have to leave the traditional and old political thinking. “We will bury the politics of hate, ego and division and move forward. Inshallah, PPP will be in the government. We will first give the people of Balochistan their right,” he continued. He said that when President Asif Ali Zardari took measures like the launch of Aghaz-e-Huqooq-Balochistan, the Eighteenth Amendment and NFC during his tenure, these were tantamount to the victory of Balochistan.
Chairman PPP said that his party’s previous governments in Sindh have ensured the development and welfare of the local population as well as the protection of their rights by making them shareholders in the resources of Thar. He said that in the past Tharparkar was presented as Africa, but now women of Thar are also working as engineers and truck drivers on the Thar Coal project. “Through the Thar Coal project, we are delivering the cheapest electricity to the National Grid, electricity is going to Faisalabad. We have done development in Sindh through Public Private Partnership,” he pointed out.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari asked whether the citizens of Balochistan consider themselves to be part of CPEC or not. “I think the people of Balochistan are being abused. CPEC was founded by President Asif Ali Zardari, but the project was not carried forward according to his vision. Balochistan has minerals and resources. As much as Balochistan has, not so many resources in the whole of Pakistan.”
PPP Chairman said that his party has always trusted people of the country. Addressing the public, he said: “You and I will make a new history together, we can change the fate of this country. I have been the youngest foreign minister of the country, I know that this country There is so much potential in the people, and I know how we can present the country as a modern state in the world.”