New year to be year of people’s rule: Bilawal

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari expressed hope that the new year would be the year of establishing people’s rule in the country.

In his message on eve of new year from his twitter account, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari twitted, “As 2019 ends, spare a thought for fellow Pakistanis made homeless overnight in this winter, 800,000 poor women who had their monthly Rs1,000 BISP taken away at a whim, 8 million Pakistanis forced under poverty line and our Kashmiri brethren. May 2020 bring real change.”

The PPP chairman said that the people of the country had suffered immensely owing to flawed, biased and corrupt policies of the current government. “The people of the country had struggled to make both ends meet and to earn a living and the poor were being victimised in a class war by those beholden to the establishmentarian elite,” he said.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that 800,000 people have been pushed into poverty by the inhumane policies of the government and astronomical inflation is condemning more to the same.

He said that removing 10 lakh women from the BISP rolls to much fanfare of ‘cost reduction’ by the government while its policies further mired the poorest in abject poverty was criminal.

The PPP chairman noted that this past year, India had converted occupied Kashmir into the world’s largest open air prison. “The fundamental rights of the Kashmiri people were being trampled on in broad daylight and that the PPP would continue to raise the issue across the world,” he said.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the coming year would see the world finally take notice of the excesses of the occupying Indian forces and that the PPP would fight for 2020 to be the year of self-determination for the Kashmiri people.