ISLAMABAD   -   Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said yesterday that Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf-led government was an era of crisis.

The PPP chief launched election campaign in Azad Jammu Kashmir. He said the behaviour and policy of federal and Kashmir governments with the people was derogatory. 

“We feel your pain because you are the comrades of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto and I cannot leave you at the mercy of these callous governments. Now I am among you all, and once again you have to support the PPP like you did with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto,” he said. 

Bilawal said if the AJK people want the problems facing Kashmir to be solved, “then you have to support the PPP.”  In occupied Kashmir, he said, people were fighting against Narendra Modi’s policies and here in Azad Kashmir people were fighting poverty, inflation and unemployment in Imran Khan’s government. 

“You are suffering because of the failed and incompetent government of Imran Khan. The people of Kashmir always prospered during the PPP governments. The PPP is the only party to get you out of these sufferings. We should form a government of PPP which can not only stand up to Modi’s government but also save you from this government,” he said.

He urged the workers to campaign door to door and deliver the message of PPP. He resolved that the next prime minister of Azad Kashmir will be from PPP. He asked to the people to elect PPP candidate, Afsar Shahid with a huge margin.

Bilawal said that he was always happy to visit Kashmir because the relations between the PPP and the people of Kashmir go back three generations. Our relation is not only political but historical, and it will continue for generations to come.  “When you supported Bhutto, we wrote history together. When you supported Benazir Bhutto, we also recorded a history. 

When you supported Asif Ali Zardari, the PPP government carried out historic development. Now, we have started the journey of a new generation. The youth of both Azad and Occupied Kashmir are also starting a new journey,” he said. 

He said the Kashmiris were fighting against Modi’s government in Occupied Kashmir and against Imran Khan’s policy of unemployment, poverty and inflation in Azad Kashmir. 

“They cannot send their children to schools, buy medicines for their elders and feed their children. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had said that we will fight for Kashmir for a thousand years if need be. There was a time when Benazir Bhutto said that where Kashmiris shed sweat, we will shed blood. Now, Modi has done a historical injustice to Kashmiri people and Imran Khan’s response is “What can I do,” he added. 

Bilawal said Zulfikar Ali Bhutto used to give a call for strike in Azad Kashmir, the people of Occupied Kashmir used to observe it as well. “Imran Khan tried to find a solution for Kashmir by changing the name of Kashmir Highway to Srinagar Highway. You have to respond to this prime minister by your votes. You have to tell the world that regardless of what this puppet prime minister says, the Kashmiri people are standing with the people of Occupied Kashmir,” he said.