Observer Report
Islamabad
Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, speaking to media after a meeting of the party’s core committee, said on Friday that the country would have a new prime minister by next year.
The PPP chairman said that elections would be held next year and as a result, a new prime minister would be elected.
“The PPP wants elections to be held,” he said. “We don’t want to go from one selected government to another.” Bilawal said that the chances of the prime minister going home had not decreased but on the contrary had increased.
He said that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F did not inform the Rahbar Committee about Plan B and Plan C in detail. “The Rahbar Committee was not informed in detail about Fazl’s talks with the Chaudhry brothers and the Plan B and C of the Azadi March,” he said.
Bilawal said that the PPP had fulfilled its promises to Fazl. He said, “I can see with certainty that by next year Imran Khan will not be the prime minister.”
“However, as far as civil disobedience is concerned we are not in favour of it,” Bilawal told reporters after chairing a meeting of the PPP core committee.
In response to a question, Bilawal said that Asif Zardari was not being allowed to meet his personal physician since the last six months. “Zardari has not applied for bail,” he said. Bilawal said that the PPP would present its agenda on its founding day. “On our founding day, we will hold a jalsa in Azad Kashmir,” he said.
Bilawal said that occupied Kashmir had been transformed into a huge jail. He said that the PPP would not stop raising its voice for the people of Kashmir. The PPP chairman lashed out at the government for not having an economic plan in place.
“Ever since this government has taken control of the country, the economic situation has taken a turn for the worse,” he said. “The common man has to pay the price in the form of increased taxes.”
He said as the Azadi March has now entered its Plan-B, the PPP will continue its mass-contact campaign and protests.
