QUETTA
Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that the people should not hand over the fate of the country to those two people who did the politics of hatred and division, we have to get rid of the traditional and old political thinking.
Addressing the Balochistan High Court Bar Association in Quetta on Friday, the PPP chairman said, “I know how elections are held in Pakistan and I also know that when the people of Pakistan wake up and make a decision, no power in the world can stop them. Let the people decide the future of Pakistan.”
Bilawal further said that elections are going to be held on February 8. “We are being told that the one who became prime minister for three times will get the country out of trouble by becoming prime minister for the fourth time. On the other hand, it is being told that a few years ago, the person who ignored the issue of missing persons while being the Prime Minister, the 70-year-old youth leader, is the country’s and people’s options.
He said, “I have no issue that these politicians have become elders, age does not matter. As an old man you can introduce a new politics and give new direction to this country and even as a youth you can be fond of the old politics.”
The PPP chairman went on to say: “Some people think that they have taken the people’s decision but I request you to give them all a surprise on February 8. Come out in large numbers and use your vote.
Do not hand over the fate of the country to these two people whose old style politics of hatred, politics of division, politics of ignoring problems and the politics that has cheapened my blood and yours, do not give them another chance.”
He said that we have to bury the politics of 1990s. Bilawal lamented that the work on the CPEC project is not being carried out in the way former president Asif Ali Zardari had thought.
“As per Asif Zardari’s thinking, the people will have to be made partners in the economy, society and politics. What Asif Zardari thought about Balochistan is not being implemented. The people of Balochistan consider themselves as shareholders in these resources.
The Constitution stipulates that first right to the resources belongs to the people of this province.” He said that the PPP government made local people shareholders when the coal was extracted from Tharparkar. “We provided employment to the people of Thar,” he added.
