ISLAMABAD - PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has expressed gratitude to the people of Pakistan for staging nationwide protests against increase in prices of petroleum products and food items. He said, “On my appeal to protest against price-hike, people of Pakistan staged demonstrations across the country.” and hence pronounced their verdict against the government.”
In a statement, Bilawal said that the People of Pakistan did not stand by Prime Minister Imran Khan and he had no right to be the prime minister without public support.
“I am also thankful to the local organizations of PPP and Jiyalas (workers) for organising protests in different cities of the country,” the PPP chairman said.
Public protests against inflation in Punjab, Waseb, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Sindh, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan are charge sheets against the government, he added.
The people will not tolerate continuous increase in inflation by Imran Khan at the behest of IMF, he maintained.
Meanwhile, former president Asif Ali Zardari, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, said that a strong democracy, supremacy of Parliament and rule of law guarantee human rights.
Zardari said that human freedom, equal democratic rights are the foundation of a civilised society. States are strengthened by giving human and democratic rights to citizens.
He said that the citizens of occupied Kashmir have been deprived of human rights for the last 74 years.
International human rights flag-bearers and activists should raise their voice against Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir, Zardari said.