PARACHINAR: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday said that when Imran Khan assumed the office of Prime Minister, he talked about Riyasat-e-Madina but in reality, he insulted the Riyasat-e-Madina because the politics of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is based on lies.
Addressing a public rally in Parachinar, Pakhtunkhwa, he said that Imran Khan wanted state institutions to operate as his party’s Tiger Force but we will not allow anyone to make our institutions controversial for one person.
Bilawal said that he does not recognize the selected government which came into power through rigging from day one. No one is willing to accept their mistake that this player does not know politics, he added.
“The Riyasat-e-Madina was founded on principles of good conduct but on the other hand, PTI’s politics are based on propaganda as every promised they made to the masses was a lie,” he asserted while taking a jibe at PM Imran Khan.
Bilawal Bhutto said that the economic policies of incompetent Khan resulted in inflation and unemployment and now poor masses of the country are drowning in the tsunami of price rises.
“Imran Khan adopted economic policies that benefitted the rich and even PTI government imposed tax on donations received for affectees of natural calamities,” he expressed.
Bilawal said that the next elections would be free and fair and no institutions would be made controversial for one person. Imran Khan’s election in 2018 was rather a “selection”, the PPP chief said. “And after three years, after your hard work and struggle, if the selectors now feel that it is not their job to do the selection for such a position … the people of the country welcome this.”
Saying that his party’s struggle had been focused on the restoration of democracy, Bilawal added their demand was that all institutions worked within their constitutional and legal ambits.
He said that Imran Khan had been conspiring and making efforts to turn all institutions — be it the NAB (National Accountability Bureau), be it the ISI (Inter-Service Intelligence), be it our armed forces, be it our police — into his Tiger Force,” Bilawal alleged.
He added that it was his promise to the people that “we will not allow anyone to make our institutions controversial”.
“We believe that institutions were made controversial in 2018 elections,” he said, adding, “God willing, next elections will be fair and transparent and no institution will be made controversial for one person.”
