Imran Khan has no solution: Bilawal Bhutto

Gujranwala: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Saturday said Prime Minister Imran Khan had no solution for any problem.

“All the democratic parties in the country are on one page and that is the page of real democracy and everybody will have to come on this page,” he said in his speech at the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally.

He said that it is his first time he was addressing the people of Gujranwala, a city where brave PPP workers like Yaqoob Khokhar and Zubair Shad and others offered sacrifices against martial law. “Bhutto is still alive due to the sacrifices of such brave PPP workers,” he added.

The PPP chairman said that Imran Khan came to power with the slogan of change and the change he brought gave our people hunger, price-hike and unemployment.

“First time in history of this government the growth rate is in minus. Today Pakistan is experiencing the highest hunger and unemployment. The economy of the country has been destroyed,” he said.

He said the prices of food commodities have more than doubled, tripled and quadrupled in the last two years. The youth with two degrees cannot find a job in Pakistan. The change of Imran Khan are the crises of wheat, sugar, oil, medicine and employment.

“Imran Khan says that the previous government left him economic crisis but your ideal Pervez Musharraf left multiple crises for us. At that time terrorism was on its peak, Swat was out of state control, we experienced two floods and there was worst recession in the entire world. We eliminated terrorism, hoisted Pakistani flag in Swat, dealt with floods, ended wheat crisis by increasing wheat support price and within two year we became self-sufficient in wheat and in two years we became exporter of wheat. The PPP government started Benazir Income Support Program for poor women, increased pension up to 150 percent, increased salaries up to 100 percent and for soldiers we increased salaries up to 175 percent. This was the solution of the crises for the people,” he said.

He said Imran Khan had promised 10 million jobs and 5 millions houses but nearly 10 million have become jobless in the last two years and thousands had lost shelter for their families.

“PTI has broken all the records of corruption. Corruption in foreign funding case, BRT, Sewing machine corruption, corruption in K-electric owned by Imran Khan’s close friend who is languishing in foreign jail, corruption in wheat, sugar and even in trees. His own people are calling this government the most corrupt along with Transparency International. We want accountability, across the board accountability for judges and Generals as well,” he said.

Chairman PPP said that it is unfortunate that the biggest province of Punjab has been handed over to a person who was called Wasim Akram plus.

He wondered who brought him whether a woman magician or some alien. This appointment is a joke. Imran Khan in his seven years in KP and two years in federal government did not establish a single hospital or university. Sindh is proud to have hospitals where treatment is totally free. The Singer from Punjab, Shaukat Ali is being treated free of cost in a hospital in Gumbat in Sindh. He said that Punjab got Rs. 500 billion less than its share in the NFC. He said that money belongs to the people of Punjab and we will get back that money from PTI. This money culd have been used to build hospital or education institutions.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that Imran Khan’s foreign policy is in tatters. He has halted CPEC, annoyed trusted friend Saudi Arabia and surrendered Kashmir. By driving around foreign dignitaries is not the foreign policy we want.

He said that Imran Khan has compromised on Kashmir but he should listen loud and clear that Kashmir cannot be surrendered. Imran has said that Modi after winning the elections will resolve Kashmir issue. Modi had in his election manifesto that he will revoke article 370 and Kashmir will become a part of India. Imran knew it and that is why he wanted Modi to win. Now Modi has attacked Kashmir and this is a historic attack. This was an attack on the UN resolutions.

For the last one year Kashmir is under siege and all the political leadership of Kashmiris have been jailed. Not only this but Imran who had said that he will be the ambassador of Kashmiris now wants to become lawyer of Indian Spy Kulbhushan Jadhav through an ordinance. This ordinance was issued but hidden from the opposition. We should have taken Kulbhushan on a road show worldwide just to show the world that India orchestrate terror in Pakistan. Instead the prime minister registered a treason case against the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir. He vowed to fight for the rights of Kashmiri people.

Chairman PPP said that Imran Khan neither run the federal government nor the Punjab government. The puppet has failed. We should have decided whether there should be rule of law or not in the country. The people have long decided in favor of rule of law but the state has not decided. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto gave constitution to the country but he was martyred by the state. His was judicial murder.

Benazir Bhutto also asked for democracy in the country, liberty for the people but she was martyred as well. Today no one is liberated neither the people not the journalists. The interview of former President and Prime Minister could not be aired but the interview of the killer of APS students, Ehsanullah Ehsan was aired.

The judiciary is also under pressure. Justice Qazi Faez Isa and his wife is being thrown from pillar to post. Parliament has been made a rubber stamp. The budget was passed by cheating and so was that FATF legislation. Now we have come on the streets for the rights of the people and democracy. Imran Khan called us corrupt when we came on the streets but are the lady health workers, doctors, Engineers, growers, traders and common people are corrupt as well who are on the streets for their rights, he asked.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that Imran should be ashamed of himself for calling himself democracy. The people are the democracy.

“We have worked together in MRD, ARD and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and Mian Nawaz Sharif had signed charter of democracy in tha past. So the PPP jiyalas, PML-N matwalas and the followers of JUI-F and workers of all other opposition parties are ready for this struggle,” he said.