Bakhtawar Bhutto rallies behind Zardari for upcoming polls

Daughter of late Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari backed former president Asif Ali Zardari for brining  China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Pakistan.

Taking to social media, Bakhtawar posted on Twitter, "We all witnessed CPEC in 2013, by we I mean the people of Pakistan including opposition parties."

Bakhtawar added, that despite Zardari being responsible for bringing CPEC to Pakistan, no credit was given to him. 

She ended her post with the hashtag #AgliBariPirZardari.

She was replying to a tweet by Zhao Lijian, the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Chinese Embassy who had earlier posted about a Chinese envoy claiming CPEC was initiated during Zardari's government in 2013 along with an article.

"Chinese envoy claims CPEC was initiated by China when Zardari was in power in 2013. CPEC is an across-the-board national consensus in Pakistan. CPEC is most successful project under the BRI," Lijan tweeted.

The PPP co-chairman will be contesting elections from NA-213 Nawabshah.