Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday came down hard on the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), mocking that “it is said about one of our allies that when faced with trouble, they will fall into your feet, but will strangle your neck with bare hands otherwise”.
Bilawal made this terse remark indirectly in a media briefing following the extended Central Executive Committee meeting.
Announcing the decisions made by his party’s CEC, Bilawal said the ongoing constitutional crisis came under discussion and the members, sharing their perspectives, were of the considered opinion that the ECP must instantly announce the election date in accordance with the constitution.
Bilawal said the CEC meeting participants conveyed their reservations regarding the need for a level playing field to PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
He said it was not possible to put forward the party’s electoral strategy at this point in time since the CEC’s reservations conveyed to Asif Zardari concerning a level playing field were yet to be taken care of.
To prove his point, Bilawal tapped into the history of the 2018 general elections which laid bare the nexus of General Faiz Hameed, retired Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar, and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
Similarly in 2013, he said, his party was expelled from the province of Punjab in an undemocratic manner, for which those undemocratic forces were still paying the price.
