Prime minister must step down, says Bilawal Bhutto
Bilawal appealed to his party and the masses to hold rallies in each district headquarters
July 15, 2017
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday said the prime minister must step down and reiterated his party’s stance that the PPP has always supported democracy.
"Accountability is part of democracy. We always supported democracy, not inds.believe in superiority of parliament & Rule of law. NS must go,” tweeted Bilawal today.
PPP plans 'Go Nawaz Go' rallies across country
Bilawal in a statement said that “Go Nawaz Go” rallies in Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan planned by his party are just the beginning.
Bilawal appreciated the party leaders and workers from South Punjab "for launching the salvo against Nawaz Sharif and his coterie who have caused immense damage to the image of democracy and democratic credentials".
“Nawaz and company have proved that politicians grown and groomed in dictator’s laps had joined politics for their ulterior motives instead of serving the nation and the country,” he said.
Bilawal said that resignation was the only way out for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and asked him to stop weighing other options of confrontations with the institutions to save his financial crimes and mega corruptions.
“Is it not shocking that each family member of Nawaz Sharif fattened their assets by an average of 16.6 per cent during a single and his second year 1991/92-1992/93 in the Prime Minister House as per the Panama JIT findings,” the statement quoted the PPP chairman as saying.
He said Nawaz Sharif had himself promised that he would step down if any evidence comes out against him but now he is reluctant to fulfill his own words when a box full of evidences is made available.
He said that PPP workers won’t stop "Go Nawaz Go" sloganeering and rallies across the country until Nawaz Sharif is forced to resign by the people of Pakistan.
The PPP co-chairman appealed to his party and the masses to hold rallies in each district headquarters and tell the "outgoing Prime Minister" that 200 million Pakistanis are up in protest against him and want him to leave office immediately.
PPP does not see any conspiracy against PM: Kaira
Earlier today, senior PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira asked the Pakistan Muslim League (N) that if any schemes against democracy are being hatched then PPP should be apprised of it, and that the party will ensure that democracy is not harmed.
Kaira further said that the PML-N does not need to worry about the democratic process being halted saying “we are here for saving democracy”.
“We and the people of Pakistan are the guardians of democracy,” he said.
On Wednesday, PPP senator Sherry Rehman while rebutting reports that the two parties were in contact had said that “it is true that we try to protect the system…but right now the system is under threat from the government.”
