ISLAMABAD
\nAsserting that there was a need to properly comprehend the statement given by former president Asif Ali Zardari in an interview with a private news channel a few days ago, senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah said on Monday that PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was the party\u2019s candidate for the seat of prime minister.
\nTaking to the media outside an accountability court in Sukkur, he said that it was the PPP\u2019s CEC that took decisions. \u201cI have a question for former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and that is whether he was still giving respect to the right to vote as he had been laying stress on it for the last four years.
\nKhurshid asked Nawaz and other PML-N leaders as to why they were criticizing the PTI when they themselves said that the country\u2019s \u2018establishment\u2019 was supporting them. \u201cThe establishment belongs to the nation,\u201d he said, and added, \u201cEven former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan used to say that he enjoyed the establishment\u2019s support.\u201d
\nResponding to a question, the PPP leader said that he and other party leaders were going to Quetta not to join any other political party, but to hold a public gathering on the eve of the PPP\u2019s 56th \u2018Yaume Tasees\u2019 (foundation day). Khurshid claimed that the PPP had always kept the promises it had made to the people.
\nListing the achievements of the PPP governments, he said that a sense of deprivation found in the people of smaller provinces was eliminated through the 18th Amendment. \u201cSo much so that people now say that had the amendment been introduced prior to the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, the debacle would not have happened,\u201d he added.
\nFormer opposition leader said that Karachi belonged to all and its development meant the development of the entire country. \u201cIt was during the tenure of late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) that the port city got Pakistan Steel Mills and highways were built. He further said that free and fair elections were a challenge for the Election Commission of Pakistan.
\nAlso on Monday, another PPP leader Aajiz Dhamrah said that no matter how much propaganda was done, nobody could take away the credit from the party for its achievements. He claimed that the public gathering to be held in Quetta on the eve of its foundation day would be historic.
\nReferring to Nawaz Sharif, Dhamrah said that there was a man who was asking for a level playing field before landing in Pakistan. \u201cSoon he will be heard complaining, \u201cMujhe Kyun Bulaya\u2019,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cNobody should forget that the former prime minister is still disqualified.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Asserting that there was a need to properly comprehend the statement given by former president Asif Ali Zardari in an interview with a private news channel a few days ago, senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah said on Monday that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n