KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has demanded the resignation of President Dr Arif Alvi and Law Minister Farogh Naseem for the “false reference” filed against Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
Addressing a press conference in Karachi today (Friday), the PPP chairman said his party had at the outset termed the action against the judge illegal.
“We had demanded at the time that whoever is involved in this blackmailing and those who have sold this reference, which includes the prime minister, the president of Pakistan and their advisors and ministers […] should resign,” he added.
The PPP chief said, “Now after his acquittal and after the conspiracy has been exposed, there must be action against them and an investigation must be conducted to determine the nature of this conspiracy.”
He further said that the party welcomes the development and hopes that the same standards will be upheld by the judiciary for political victims. “The president has no moral authority to remain in office after signing off on a false reference,” he added.
“Everyone must reign. Imran Khan entire cabinet is involved in this crime. They all advised the president to take such a step,” Bilawal claimed. He said now everyone involved will have to answer for this crime and the sooner, the better for the country.
Referring to NA-249 win, Bilawal said that the party’s “historic win” in the NA-249 by-election held a day earlier in Karachi proves that the people no longer backing the government.
“The people of Karachi have sent a clear message to the puppet, incompetent government that they have been rejected,” the PPP chairman said.
“We not only dealt the government a defeat in the by-election throughout the country, but then in the National Assembly, the Chairman Senate, and then the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate elections,” he said.
He further said that with the win, the PPP proved to the naysayers and the “propaganda” peddlers that whoever works hard and stands by the poor will emerge victorious.
