Imran has become Kulbhushan’s lawyer: Bilawal

ISLAMABAD: The PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Sunday that Prime Minister Imran Khan had promised the people of Kashmir that he would be their ambassador but instead became a lawyer for Kulbhushan.

His remarks came during a campaign rally in Azad Kashmir's Rawalakot, to shore up support ahead of the July 25 elections of the AJK Legislative Assembly.

The PPP chairman strongly objecting to the passing of The International Court of Justice (Review and Reconsideration) Bill, 2020 in the National Assembly, claimed that the Parliament was not taken into confidence before the bill was passed.

“If Imran Khan wishes to give Kulbhushan an NRO, he can go ahead, but the PPP will never be a partner in crime,” he said. Bilawal said the people of Kashmir “will not follow a puppet regime”.

“We must get this message across to Islamabad that the people of Kashmir will decide their future on their own,” Bilawal said, adding that this was PPP’s policy. He said the PTI is a failure in AJK, and the PPP is going to form the next government.

In further criticism of the government, Bilawal said that the people of Pakistan “are being made to bear the burden of the government’s failures and its slogan for ‘change’.” He said that whereas Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) is ruled by Modi, where Kashmiris are fighting Modi’s oppression, the “people of Azad Kashmir are facing Imran Khan’s inflation tsunami”.

“Imran Khan may remain silent, but the people of Kashmir will not,” the PPP chairman said.

“If there is a historic attack on occupied Kashmir, then Imran Khan says what should I do?” Bilawal went on to say.

Addressing the premier, he said: “Try asking for votes in the name of an NRO for Kulbhushan and see the response that you get.”

“The Kashmiri people will send a message on July 25 that they reject the puppet,” he said.

He claimed that not only will there be a prime minister in Azad Kashmir from the PPP, but the party “will also have a prime minister in Pakistan”.

Meanwhile, addressing a crowd in Sehnsa, Bilawal said that People of Kashmir had sided with Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and wrote a history. “You sided with Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and she was elected the first woman prime minister of the Islamic world,” he said.