ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari would lead the party campaign for the upcoming general elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the PPP announced on Sunday.
PPP central leader Faryal Talpur said that PPP would form government in AJK with a historic victory.
“For this, it is necessary that activists of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto start the election campaign with enthusiasm. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will soon visit Azad Kashmir and lead the election campaign himself,” she said.
Earlier, LA-34 Jammu 1 member Sardar Zahid Iqbal Advocate along with his colleagues met Talpur and joined the PPP, quitting the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf. Ishtiaq Ahmad Bukhari also joined PPP on the occasion. A delegation of 40 workers including Sardar Zahid Iqbal Advocate and Ishtiaq Ahmad Bukhari called on Faryal Talpur.
The delegation was comprised of Sardar Zafar Iqbal, Raja Saad Mehmood Bhatti, Malik Muhammad Saleem, Haji Muhammad Ayub, Chaudhry Muhammad Rafiq, Abdul Majeed Bhatti, Sardar Yahya Khan, Chaudhry Afzal Jutt, Sardar Ishtiaq, Chaudhry Khan Muhammad, Chaudhry Muhammad Sakhi, Chaudhry Mumtaz, Sardar Farooq, Chaudhry Saleem Jutt, Chaudhry Raheel Jutt, Sardar Muhammad Azeem Khan, Rana Muhammad Shafiq, Mahmudul Hassan, Chaudhry Pervez, Sardar Abrar, Zaheer Abbas, Nadeem Akhtar, Chaudhry Hameed, Muhammad Mukhtar, Zaheer Abbas, Waheed Inqalabi, Fakhr Zaman Gulpara, Asif Mitra, Azhar Gilani, Javed Behdanvi, Chaudhry Ashraf Shahid, Shaheen Dar, Shaukat Ali Mir, Sahibzada Zulfiqar Ali, Waqar Ahmed and Nisar Ahmed.
PPP Secretary General Syed Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, PPP Azad Kashmir General Secretary Faisal Mumtaz Rathore and Sardar Ayub were also present on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion, Faryal Talpur said that PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was the only political leader who was raising voice for a referendum on the demands of Kashmiris.
She said that just as Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari did not disappoint the Kashmiris, Chairman Bilawal Bhutto would also not disappoint the Kashmiris.
Faryal Talpur said that time had proved that Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s stance on Indian Prime Minister Narindra Modi was realistic.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan should apologise to the nation for his statement,” she said.
Faryal Talpur said that freedom of the people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) was their basic and democratic right.
“India cannot maintain its aggressive occupation of IIOJK for long. Like Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari also had a clear position on Kashmir,” she said.
She said that Kashmir cause had been the main pillar of Pakistan’s foreign policy of the PPP government. “It is unfortunate that the parties in power for the last eight years have not given importance to Kashmir cause. No one made a foreign minister; someone made a foreign minister who was sitting in Multan or Islamabad during Modi’s aggression on Kashmir, even though the president, prime minister and foreign minister used to make stormy tours around the world and all over the country,” she said.
Faryal Talpur urged the party workers to go to the streets and to their neighbourhoods to inform people about the performance of the PPP governments and the performance of the governments of other parties.