PPP's fight against poverty and inflation, not political parties: Bilawal

• Bilawal says PPP's good days are around the corner.
• PPP chief says ‘incompetent’ sent packing via no-trust motion.
• He regrets certain politicians misled youth and provoked them.

KARACHI: Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that his party's fight is against poverty, inflation, and unemployment in the country, not other political parties, The News reported.

The minister made this remark while addressing the inauguration ceremony of the new sports complex at the Kakri Ground Sports Complex in Lyari on the occasion of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. He asked the followers of his party to be fully prepared as its good days are around the corner.

The PPP chairman said the no-confidence motion was moved in the National Assembly to send packing the previous incompetent ruler who committed a robbery on the people’s mandate in the last elections.

Bilawal said that a special relationship exists between his family and the people of Lyari, saying that his parents, Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari, had been married at the Kakri Ground. He said that the movement for the progress of Pakistan had been launched from the streets of Lyari.

He went on to say that the people of Lyari had stood against the dictatorial regimes of former military leaders generals Ziaul Haq and Pervez Musharraf and also made efforts against the previous incompetent ruler.

Bilawal said the PPP had secured a landslide victory in the local government elections in Lyari. He said the PPP had always won whenever the polls were held without the umpire's interference.

The PPP chairman said that his party fully believed in the democratic dispensation in the country. He said the PPP had been providing the opportunity for youth to excel. He said the residents of Lyari and the rest of Karachi would be given the sporting and healthcare facilities.

He told the audience that the people of Lyari were massively talented so they should take part in the nation-building progress.

Bilawal mentioned that certain politicians had misled the youth and provoked them, whereas the PPP had never believed in politics based on hatred and division.

Earlier, addressing the Convocation of Suffa University, the PPP chairman alerted the country’s youth and said: “The most dangerous is the attempt to sow the seeds of hatred amongst us. Toxic polarisation, incitement to violence, demagoguery designed to distract us from the real work that needs to be done together and done by you being the front liners in leadership roles, in charge of your destiny and the destiny of this country.”

He went on to say that PPP had always rejected the politics of hate and has always preferred the politics of reconciliation and the welfare of the people. 

“I don’t want our politics to revolve around fighting with each other and parties or institutions fighting against each other,” he added. 

He said that the politics in the country should be about fighting poverty, inflation, unemployment, and despondency, as the nation needs to compete with the world, adding that the world today is a world of artificial intelligence, digital technology, and cutting-edge research. 

“We need to create a modern, inclusive, and democratic Pakistan. That is a responsibility that all of us have,” he stressed.