Nawaz damaged Kashmir cause the most: Bilawal

Says game over for circus lions now

Bagh - Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari once again urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down from his position following accusations towards his role in the rampant corruption in the country, saying he wanted a transparent probe into Panama leaks.

“I demand you [PM Nawaz] to go home and conduct a transparent inquiry into the Panama Papers revelations,” he said while addressing a PPP public gathering at Bagh, Azad Kashmir on Tuesday.

Bilawal also took the premier to task for “jeopardising the issue of Kashmir by building his associations with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”

He went on to say that the days of the rulers were numbered and they will have to step down soon.

“Mr prime minister you attended PM Modi’s oath-taking ceremony and forgot about the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat,” the PPP leader said, adding, “The premier tarnished the foreign policy of Pakistan by giving Modi his certificate of friendship.”

As a result, Saudi Arabia then awarded Modi with the highest civil award, while Pakistan was at its lowest ebb in relations with Afghanistan and Iran, Bilawal said.

According to him, no ruler in the past had inflicted as much damage to the Kashmir cause by standing alongside the Indian premier as Nawaz did while the occupied territory witnessed the worst atrocities.

“Even if a pigeon crosses the border from Pakistan, it is considered an agent but our premier becomes silent when agents of RAW are nabbed from the country.”

“Mian Sahib has made Pakistan’s stance on Kashmir a joke,” he said, adding, “Mian Sahib went too far in his friendship with India that he did not care to meet Hurriyat leaders.”

“Sixty-seven years have passed but you [United Nations] have also been unable to implement one resolution of plebiscite in Kashmir just like in south Sudan and East Timor,” the PPP chairman added.

“Whenever I talk about Modi, people look in it through the prism of India-Pakistan relations.”

Bilawal was critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said there were many countries that denied visa to the Indian premier.

“India’s foreign policy experts, too, were worried when Modi was elected as their prime minister,” he added.

Bilawal stressed on his party’s call to have plebiscite in the Indian-occupied Kashmir under the United Nations auspices.

He said if people supported him, he’d be able to stop Modi and Nawaz from inflicting more damage to Kashmir.

“Elections provide a moment of decision-making for you to support me to rid you of the incumbent rulers,” Bilawal said while referring to the forthcoming general elections in AJK on June 26.

Taking a jibe at PM Nawaz, Bilawal said, “All you care about, Mian Sahib, is your business and have no interest in the development of the people.”

At the same time he lambasted the Punjab government, saying their claims of good governance had fallen flat just because of a ‘Chotu gang’ in the province.

Earlier, Bilawal also said he would make the jubilant announcement that Ali Haider Gilani has been released.

He said: “The government’s boat is shaking. The game is now over for circus lions,” adding that his party wanted a fair probe into Panama Papers’ revelations.

The PPP chairman termed 2016 Azad Kashmir general election as equivalent to referendum.

He added that Nawaz-led government hadn’t done anything for the people of Kashmir despite being in power for three years.

He stated that a number of countries considered the Indian PM as a terrorist and that PPP always raised voice to safeguard the rights of the Kashmiri people.

He also suggested PM Nawaz to relinquish his post, adding that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government was facing turbulence.

He alleged that the PM wrongly involved PPP leaders in cases whose authenticity was questionable and further stated that unlike PML-N leaders, they would stay in the country and face the allegations levelled against them.

He questioned why Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was not held accountable despite confession that he was involved in money-laundering in Hudaibiya Paper Mill plan.

Bilawal crticised Sharif for his flawed Kashmir policy.

“RAW agents are being arrested from the mills of prime minister,” he claimed.

“I have always raised the Kashmir issue at every forum. There should be a referendum over freedom of Kashmir,” Bilawal added. “We always raised voice for the Kashmir's rights at every forum,” he added.

He also criticised the development projects being worked upon by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's government. “Funds were spent on catching Chotu Gang while the poor man got poorer and access to education depleted further,” he said.

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