Bilawal to launch mass contact campaign in Punjab

Author: Kashif Hussain

LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will start his special people to people contact campaign in Punjab next week, said party’s provincial head Qamar Zaman Kaira on Thursday.

Addressing a cake-cutting ceremony on 89th birthday of party founder and former premier Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s 89th birthday here at the party’s provincial headquarters at Faisal Town, Kaira said that the party would be strengthened by the people-to-people contact campaign in Punjab, which was a need of the hour.

He said, ‘The youth must gather around Bilawal Bhutto not only to save the country from sitting corrupt rulers but to fight against the extremism and terrorism progressively.” He said that ruling Sharifs had made every person of the country defaulter by getting loans on the pretext of development. “The Sharifs were misguiding the nation by their claims about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which was factually an initiative of the PPP,” he said.

Criticising the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Kaira said that the rulers had already started pre-election rigging by imposing the Civil Administration Ordinance, 2016 in which the bureaucracy had been empowered against the elected representatives of the province. He said that such ordinance was a reflection of the rulers’ mindset of establishing ‘democratic dictatorship’ through bureaucrats.

Paying rich tribute to the political and democratic struggle of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto on his birthday, Kaira said that Bhutto had made the country stronger by his foreign diplomacy. He said the incumbent government had hell-bent on weakening Pakistan internationally, as it had not appoint a foreign minister during its three-and-a-half-year tenure.

Later, the party leaders jointly cut the Bhutto’s birthday cake and offered special prayer.

Present among others were Ch Manzoor, Naveed Chaudhry, Haji Azizur Rehman Chann, Samina Khalid Ghurki, Jahanzeb Burki, Ch Aslam Gill, Tariq Khursheed, Usman Malik, Faisal Mir, Umar Bukhari, Mian Manzoor Manika, Amir Hasan, Khuram Latif Khosa, Napoleon Qayyum, Dr Rafiq and Naseer Ahmad.