Multan
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Friday that at a time when Punjab was drowning some people hatched conspiracy in Islamabad to sink Pakistan.
“But beware! We’ll not let them do so,” he declared while delivering an address here at Gillani House. Earlier, he also addressed flood victims. He asked the organizing parties of sit-in to set aside their politics for a few days and help Pakistanis. He declared that his party would not leave flood victims and all out efforts would be made for their rehabilitation. He further declared that he would continue to visit the flood-hit areas until all flood-affected people were rehabilitated. He urged all sections of society to forge unity to meet the challenge of natural calamity that had struck the country again, the Punjab in particular. He said that it was time to become one nation and not to do politics.
Referring to the 2013 general elections, he declared that the polls were rigged from Karachi to Khyber. “We’ll show on October 18th how the polls were rigged,” he added. He asked the workers of PPP to reach Karachi on October 18th to mark the death anniversary of Karsaaz tragedy.
Earlier, Bilawal Bhuttoo Zardari visited the flood-hit areas of Multan and Muzaffargarh amid tight security. He was accompanied by former premier Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, President of PPP South Punjab Makhdoom Shahabuddin, General Secretary Malik Aamer Dogar former MPA and District President Khalid Hanif Lodhi, City President Khurshid Ahmed Khan, Khawaja Rizwan Alam and other leaders of the PPP. He visited flood relief camps at Head Muhammadwala and met with the flood affectees. The PPP chairman also distributed food packets to the affected people.
Meanwhile, a PPP spokesman told journalists that the PPP had already dispatched 30 truckloads of relief goods to flood-hit areas of Punjab while the party had planned to send 500 more trucks loaded with relief items for the flood affected people. He added that PPP Chairman Bilawal had ordered to purchase tents worth Rs50 million to meet the temporary residential needs of the victims as their homes had been washed away in the flood.