Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that all opposition parties should hold protests but they must not give any chance to "third power" to derail the democratic system. Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari visited Adiala Jail on Monday to see his father Asif Ali Zardari. After the meeting, Bilawal Bhutto while talking to the media said that protest is a right of every party but it must be ensured that no third power should be allowed to wrap up the entire system.

He said, "The puppet and selected prime minister is incompetent and naive and he does not know how to run the country's affairs. Running a country's affair is not like playing cricket." He said, "We are going towards the constitutional crisis by ignoring the Parliament. There is no plan in sight to improve the national economy." Bilawal said that weak democracy is much better than dictatorship in the country.

Answering a question about the PPP's defeat in Larkana by-election, he said, "Larkana election was not an election, instead it was a selection. The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in its report also mentioned irregularities in the Larkana by-election." The PPP chairman also made it clear that they would protest in Thar on October 23, demonstrate in Kashmore on 26th whereas rallies in Punjab would begin from November 1. The PPP would play the role what it had played during the previous eras of martial laws and would continue its political struggle, he added.

Bilawal said that his father's health is deteriorating with each passing day but he is fully determined. He said his father made a request to shift him from jail to hospital but he is not being shifted. He claimed that no medical facilities are being provided to his father despite the court's orders.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019