Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could not trick inhabitants of Sindh through false promises of development. "Do not expect any good from these rulers. The (federal) ruler's development is limited to advertisements only. The people of Thatta and Hyderabad do not need your promises. They recognize your false promises," he said while addressing a gigantic crowd at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh to observe 38th death anniversary of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
He said the rulers were busy in protecting their own assets. They were not worried about national security, but they were worried about Panama Leaks case. The chairman PPP questioned that if progress was made then why national debt was increasing, why people wanted to get rid of you, why factories and mills were being shut down, why labourers were forced to sleep empty stomach, why was gas loadshedding being carried out after electricity loadshedding.
INP agency adds: Bilawal said, "What was Bhutto's crime? All the children know that Bhutto's crime was that he wanted to bring freedom in the country. He made Pakistan a nuclear power". "Sadly, till now Bhutto has not gotten justice neither have his heirs," he remarked. "Bhutto is the name of the ideology and not just a person," he said.
"We are engaged in an ideological battle. They [the rulers] have neither any economic nor any foreign affairs policy." Bilawal said that the rulers were only interested in Panama's verdict than care about the well-being of the people. "Mian Sahab, the people of Sindh know you well," he remarked. "You [Nawaz Sharif] claim that your heart goes out to the people. However, you have done nothing for the people," Bilawal alleged. "Mian Sahab, you are playing a very dangerous game. "
"I completely trust the youth of the country," he stressed. The youth should not be aloof to the problems of the country. "It is us [the youth] who have to finish the menace of corruption." He called the youth to join him in his struggle and support the party. The leader also spoke about female empowerment and said that his mother set an example for women empowerment.
Bilawal said, "Imperialists and their cronies" had conspired to plant the seeds of religious extremism in the country 40 years ago, but the PPP's war against religious extremism started even before and continues to this day. Bilawal also took the occasion to criticise government leaders for lacking the ability to make the right decisions at the right time, saying they were too busy trying to figure out new ways to "save their black money".
"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his accomplices are beating the drum of progress, but where is this progress in reality," he questioned. "Gas development programmes are banned across Pakistan but gas connections are still being distributed amongst the cronies of PML-N," he added. "Mian Sahab, you can fool yourself, but you can't fool the 200 million people of Pakistan," he added.
The Sindh government had announced a public holiday on the day in the province. Security had been beefed up in and around the Bhutto family mausoleum and over 7,000 police personnel were deployed. A big crowd of enthusiastic party workers and admirers of Z.A Bhutto participated in the public meeting to pay tributes to the iconic politician.
PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari had reached Naudero earlier in the day to attend the rally. A mushaira was also held before the address of the leaders.