Bilawal Bhutto stands for democracy

Islamabad: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari addressing a joint press conference in Islamabad said that we need a full court hearing in the case of the election of Chief Minister Punjab. He said that it is not possible that only three individuals decide whether this country will be run by a democratic or selected system.

Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that it cannot be done that three individuals change our 1973 constitution by the stroke of a pen. The Pakistani people and the PPP struggled for thirty years to restore this constitution. The PPP workers sacrificed their lives and were lashed for their struggle for the restoration of this constitution. We want to give our people and the provinces their rights.

This press conference consists of leaders and parties from all four provinces and represents the federation. We want this country to be run by democratic means. We can see that some individuals cannot digest that Pakistan is on the way of democracy.

They cannot tolerate that the Pakistani people are deciding for themselves. “The puppets destroyed the economy and democracy of the country for four years in power. Imran Khan took more loans that the country acquired cumulatively in seventy years. Imran Khan wants to usurp the rights of the provinces,” he added.

He was turning the institutions into his Tiger Force and we removed him with democratic means. We had to suffer four years of tyranny where Maryam Nawaz was imprisoned and Faryal Talpur was dragged out of the hospital on the night before Eid.

President Zardari was not provided medicines in jail and the same courts were not listening our cases. Our establishment and institutions including the courts were compelled to assume a constitutional role. Our struggle compelled them to take constitutional measures. Only three months have passed and some political parties and individuals are not able to tolerate this democracy. A campaign is being run for Imran Khan against the economic development and democracy. This is a conspiracy. We have not let any conspiracy succeed in the past and will not let any conspiracy succeed now. We want for our institutions to remain impartial and operate in a democratic and constitutional manner. We want to save the credibility and respect of the judiciary. All the parties are demanding for a a full court bench to be constituted to hear this case. We hope that our judiciary will decide to hear the case by the entire court. We would all have to accept the verdict of the full court. Our constitution cannot be changed due to the pressure of Imran Khan. The court gave a verdict on which we had reservations. Now, it is not possible to again change our constitution. We all demand a full court bench.