Bilawal Bhutto hopes for people’s rule

Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while greeting the nation on the occasion of the New Year expressed his hopes that the new year would be the year of establishing the peoples’ rule in the country.

In his message, 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 ends meet and to earn a living and the poor were being victimised in a class war by those beholden to the establishmentarian elite.

‘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 added.

He also 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.

He 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 Pakistan People’s Party would continue to raise the issue across the world. 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.

Meanwhile, PPP member National Assembly Shazia Marri said that this out of mind government wants to run the Parliament in a haphazard way like it is running the country.

It was 5pm today when the members were informed through media about the session of the Parliament to be held the very next day. Neither the members were taken into confidence nor was the notification of the meeting issued. The members should have been informed about the meeting at least 48 hours earlier.

How the members will be able to attend the session in this weather condition in the country, she asked. Does the government want that members should not attend the session, she also asked.

Shazia Marri said that the government which does not know the principles of running the parliament has failed on every front. If Imran Khan cannot run the government then he should go home because people and their representatives are suffering due to his inability to run the country, she said.

Parliament is not Imran Khan’s cabinet which he wants to run according to his wishes, Shazia Marri said.