Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan conspired against democracy by becoming an accomplice of military ruler Pervez Musharraf and that he will face similar fate as that of Asghar Khan.

Speaking at a Diwali ceremony in Tando Mohammad Khan, a district of southern Sindh, on Thursday, he said Imran’s dream of becoming prime minister would never come true as he is destined to become the next Asghar Khan in Pakistan’s history, a private TV channel reported.

Bilawal said his party has ideological differences with PTI chief, who, he said, never shies away from taking anti-democratic steps, citing the 2014 protest sit-in against the elected government – referring to the PML-N rule.

He claimed the PTI had received foreign funding from India and Israel, referring to confessional statements of Akbar S Babar, one of the founding members of PTI, who parted ways with it.

The PPP chairman also criticised Imran for being ‘anti-women’, saying Ayesha Gulalai’s statements have proved misogynistic behaviours within the party.

Commenting over indictment of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam and son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar by an accountability court, Bilawal said accountability process was necessary for durable democracy and the court’s decision will neither weaken democracy nor is a conspiracy against it. The PPP leader advised Nawaz and his family to face the court cases and respond to the allegations levelled against them.

Published in Daily Times, October 20^th 2017.