GHOTKI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has excoriated the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government as “incompetent” as he once again warned the ruling party against tampering with the 18th Amendment or attempting to bring the “one-unit system”, Geo News reported.
“This is a bunch of incompetent individuals, who have been unable to govern the country,” Bilawal said while speaking to a public rally here on Friday. He also criticised Prime Minister Imran Khan for not going to Quetta, despite a tragic loss of lives there in a suicide blast earlier in the day.
“Today, people have been longing for food. Load-shedding and inflation have made life difficult for the masses,” Bilawal lamented. Bilawal accused the government of intending to amend a “consensus Constitution” given by late former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. “They want to do away with the 18th Amendment slowly and gradually, and want to usurp the rights of Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” he said. “They want to bring one-unit system. Do they want to split the country?”
The PPP chairman said because of One Unit system, the country was split in the past as well. “We have rendered sacrifices of our lives and we will not let the constitution to be harmed,” he asserted.
Bilawal said “they” knew that stronger provinces would result in a strong federation, adding: “But this ‘benami’ Prime Minister wants to deprive you of your rights. They say the federation is going to be bankrupted. Listen you puppet! The federation is pushed towards bankruptcy because to your economic policies.”
The PPP chairman warned against efforts to roll back the 18th Amendment, saying there was going to be “Dama Dam Mast Qalandar” in the country. He also reminded the participants of the Prime Minister’s claims of vowing not to take loans.
“[He] had said he would commit suicide, but he wouldn’t take a loan — or go to the IMF,” the PPP chairman said. He lamented the dollar, which was once traded at Rs100, was not being exchanged for Rs142.
“The puppet had claimed to provide 10 million jobs, but today the youngsters are complaining about unemployment,” Bilawal said. “They deprived the people of shelters in the name of anti-encroachment drive, let alone providing the masses with houses they had promised.”—News Desk
