PPP to hold public meeting in Quetta on Nov 30 to mark its foundation day

The Pakistan Peoples Party has decided that a public meeting will be held in Quetta on November 30, 2023, to mark its 56th foundation day anniversary.

The decision to this effect was reached at a meeting of the PPP Balochistan chapter here on Thursday. The meeting, held the Bilawal House, was chaired by PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and also attended by PPP Women Wing President Faryal Talpur.

Bilawal on the occasion directed the PPP leaders and activists from Balochistan to fully gear up their preparations for contesting the upcoming general elections. He said the PPP was going to fully contest the upcoming polls in Balochistan and it would win a greater number of seats from the province as compared to its past poll victories.

Bilawal said the past regimes of the PPP had taken practical steps to resolve the genuine issues of the people of Balochistan. “Whether it was the package of Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan or envisioning the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project, the Peoples Party always give importance to Balochistan,” he said.

He predicted that the results of the upcoming general polls would prove that the loyalists of Bhutto were present everywhere from Hub to Quetta in Balochistan.

The meeting took into consideration organisational and political affairs in Balochistan. The strategy for the PPP’s election campaign in the province was also discussed. The leadership of the PPP Balochistan chapter gave their suggestions in this regard to the party chairman.

PPP leaders who attended the meeting included Mir Changez Jamali, Rozi Khan Kakar, Sar Buland Jogazai, Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri, Lt Gen (retired) Abdul Qadir Baloch, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Ali Madad Jatak, Ejaz Baloch, Dr Barkat Baloch, Iqbal Shah, Bismillah Khan Kakar, Siraj Raisani and Kishwar Ahmed Jatak.

A day earlier, while speaking to the media in Karachi’s Ibrahim Hyderi, Bilawal had said that his party parted ways with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) after the former ruling party compromised on the sanctity of vote.

“As long as PMLN’s narrative remained vote ko izzat do, we kept along but when this narrative changed, staying together became difficult,” he said. Bilawal once again reiterated his stance on the absence of equal opportunities as a political party, saying the PPP never got a level playing field in any election. However, he said the PPP will win the election this time even without one. “Our connection is with the nation while others have with special selection teams.”

He further said the PPP’s stance has always been that the elections should be conducted. However, the narrative of “others” was different earlier compared to now, he added without naming anyone.

Speaking about the newly-formed alliance between the PMLN and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), the top PPP leader said that both parties would lose due to this union.