As the political atmosphere heats up ahead of the upcoming general election, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday challenged PML-N's acting president Shahbaz Sharif and PTI chief Imran Khan to contest election from Karachi.
Talking to the media during his visit to the PPP membership drive camp in Karachi, Bilawal said Shahbaz and Imran will face worst defeat if they contested election from Karachi. There are reports that PTI chairman Imran Khan will be contesting the 2018 general election from Karachi as well.
PTI spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry confirmed that Imran Khan will kick off his nationwide tour on March 4 and will begin the electioneering after March 8. Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said appointing Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif as PML-N president was a controversial decision.
Bilawal slammed the Punjab chief minister, stating that he had to answer for the allegations against him in the Model Town massacre case and several others. "Shahbaz Sharif has to answer for the allegations against him in Multan Metro Bus and Ashiana Housing schemes," he said. Bilawal also slammed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, stating that the public was not at all concerned with the elder Sharif's disqualification. "It is only the PPP that talks about the problems of the common man," he said. "The government is not at all concerned with the problems of the masses," he added.
Bilawal said the people of Pakistan were only concerned about when the government would end the menaces of unemployment and terrorism. "I hope people of Pakistan will support PPP because it is the only political party which speaks about public issues and try to resolve them," he said. "People are not concerned that why Nawaz Sharif was ousted from the premiership, they only want elimination of unemployment, poverty and terrorism," he added. He claimed that only his party can make Pakistan a prosperous and developed country.
The brother of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif took a small step closer to the premiership Tuesday after he was named head of the ruling party before a general election due this year. The move by the judiciary sparked fresh fears of political infighting within the PML-N before the election due sometime in 2018, with Nawaz's daughter Maryam Sharif gaining increasing influence over the party in recent months.
But the party presented a united front with the election of Shahbaz, while Nawaz was appointed the party's guide "for life".
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