I am contesting election to bury politics of hatred & division: Bilawal

SAHIWAL, Jan 22 (SABAH): Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Monday that he is contesting elections to bury politics of hatred and division whereas PPP is a single party which can deal with the issues being confronted by the country. He asked people of Pakistan to give him a chance he would change fate of the country.

Addressing a gathering in Sahiwal, Bilawal said: “I do not want four but one chance. If you give me a chance, I will change the fate of the country and solve all the problems [being faced by the country].” The PPP chairman who is an aspirant for the prime minister’s slot took a veiled dig at Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, who is taking a fourth shot at power after being granted relief from the judiciary.

Referring to the skyrocketing inflation, unemployment, and poverty, the PPP leader claimed that his party was the sole solution to these problems. “Pakistan is going through a default time,” Bilawal said, adding that there was a division in the society.

The former foreign minister warned that hostile forces could use the division to fulfil their nefarious designs. “I am contesting election to bury the politics of hatred and division.”

Recalling his mother and Pakistan’s first female elected prime minister Benazir Bhutto who was assassinated in a suicide bomb blast-cum-gun attack in Rawalpindi on 27 December 2007, Bilawal said: “Today, bibi shaheed’s philosophy is needed more than it has ever been in the past.”

Highlighting the services of former prime minister and president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who was hanged to death on April 4, 1979, in a murder case, Bilawal said he had decided that they would have to do what ‘Quaid-e-Awam’ did.

If his party was given another chance to govern the country, the PPP stalwart vowed that they would give interest-free loans to women, introduce the Benazir Kissan Card, subsidy to formers, the Youth Card, and free healthcare facilities for the masses.