KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has taken serious notice of mishandling a protest of growers outside the Bilawal House in Karachi the other day and said that the use of violence should be averted while dealing with political protests. In a statement, the PPP chairman pointed out that it was a sheer negligence of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government for not tackling the issue of piling up surplus sugar stock in country go-downs, which had eventually generated uncertainty and unrest among sugarcane growers. He said that the Sindh government should take the farmer community along with their mainstream representative organisations into confidence over the issues cropping up due to inaction on the part of federal government. “Agriculture economy was booming when the PPP was in power but it was undo by the PML-N government since it assumed office in 2013,” said Bilawal. He also asked the Sindh government to keep a vigilant eye on political opponents impersonating as growers to exploit the situation for their political mileage. Published in Daily Times, December 13th 2017.