LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday said that PML-N had been winning elections under an NRO with terrorists.
Bilawal was addressing the PPP workers from Gilgit-Baltistan at Party’s 49th Foundation Day celebrations being held at Bilawal House in Lahore.
‘PML-N and its Interior Minister were applying and exploiting NAP for political targets and victimization instead targeting terrorists. Chaudhry Nisar wept over the killing of Hakeemullah Mehsud and started abusing NAP against Dr Asim and Ayyan Ali,’ he stated.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that it was only his family, party and the jawans who were fighting the terrorists and embracing martyrdom while all others are doing politics over NAP and terrorism policy.
He said that PML-N fielded ‘terrorists’ against his Party in Gilgit-Baltistan elections and blamed PML-N for hiding its extremism behind the clean-shaven faces. ‘We have Bhutto power and they have Zia power. We had defeated Zia. We defeated Musharraf. PPP has defeated Nawaz Sharif several times and will defeat him again in 2018 general elections,’ he added.
He said that CPEC was an idea of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto while President Asif Ali Zardari transformed into a vision by handing over Gwadar Port to China.
Speaking on the occasion, former Governor of GB Qamaruz Zaman Kaira said that elections in AJK and GB were stolen by the PML-N government through massive rigging and demanded that elections in all the four provinces, AJK and GB should be held simultaneously.
He further said that it was Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who abolished Sardari system in GB and empowered the common man but Nawaz Sharif has restored Sardars and pushed back the poor masses.
Former Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Mehdi Shah said that people of his area got their legitimate rights only while PPP in power and pledged that PPP would also give provincial status to GB region. He pointed out that President Asif Ali Zardari silently laid foundation of CPEC and warned PML-N government that masses of Gilgit-Baltistan won’t allow CPEC to pass from their area if their rights in the project were not ensured.
Earlier, PPP GB President Amjad Hussain adorned Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari with traditional Gilgit cap and Choga.
Former Prime Ministers Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf, Leader of the Opposition Syed Khurshed Shah, former Sindh CM Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Senator Sherry Rehman and others were also present on the occasion where traditional music tunes and songs from GB were also played. NNI