Bilawal Bhutto attends NSC meeting

Islamabad: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari attended the on camera meeting of the national security committee of the parliament.

The parliamentarians were briefed regarding national security issues. Talking to the journalists after the meeting at the parliament house, Chair PPP said that he will not comment because the briefing was on camera and off the record. As far as the policy about Afghanistan, negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or the agreement with the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) are concerned, these could not be unilateral decisions. Without the approval of the parliament, Senate and the national assembly, no policy can be chalked out about them. Any policy without the approval of the parliament will have no legitimacy.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the statements made by the president, prime minister and foreign minister about the negotiations with the TTP were criticised by him before, and will continue to be criticized since no one was taken on board and no consensus was built. Who are they to decide on begging the TTP for talks and unilaterally engage the TTP which martyred our soldiers, national leadership and the children of APS? A policy approved by the parliament will be a better policy with legitimacy.

Later, the Chair PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari along with other PPP parliamentarians attended a meeting of combined opposition at the opposition leader’s chamber in the national assembly. Talking to journalists after the meeting, he said that the entire opposition is united against the government on the issue of price hike. Since the agreement with the IMF, people are crushed under price-hike. The entire opposition is united against price-hike. The efforts of the government to steal the votes through electronic voting machines and political victimisation through the NAB ordinance are apparent. We will raise a joint voice for the people in the parliament and will defeat the conspiracy of rigging in elections and political victimisation.