ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari yesterday said that Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani and Abdul Ghafoor Haideri will win the Senate chairman and deputy chairman seats on March 12 as the joint candidates of the Pakistan Democratic Movement.

Bilawal expressed his pleasure over the announcement of PDM panel for the chairman and deputy chairman Senate election scheduled for March 12. He felicitated Gillani and Abdul Ghafoor Haideri on their nomination as PDM candidates for position of chairman and deputy chairman respectively. 

Bilawal said that democratic forces were united against this “incapable and incompetent” government. He said that success of Gillani was in fact a victory of the people of Pakistan.  

Meanwhile yesterday, President Awami National Party Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter Aimal Wali Khan called on former president Asif Ali Zardari and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari here.

Zardari and Bilawal enquired about the health of ANP President Asfandyar Wali and wished him early recovery. 

“Current political situation in the country was also discussed in the meeting as well as the matters involving opposition’s long march against the government,” said a PPP statement. Separately, Secretary Information PPP Parliamentarians Shazia Atta Marri - reacting to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement in the cabinet meeting - said that the “corruption story of Imran Khan starts from Ikram Niazi to Aleema Baji and in between is donation theft by the Niazi family.”

Shazia Marri said that when the cabinet discusses such frivolous things the result was the foul language of the ministers. “The country has been isolated in the world and Pakistani economy is hardly breathing. The nation is crushed under price-hike and increase in utility bills,” she added. 

Marri said this was the result of the “nonsense” Imran Khan teaches his ministers who in turn “have become zombies who just have expertise in the use of foul language.”