ISLAMABAD - Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari yesterday claimed that the federal government was victimizing the opposition in Azad Jammu Kashmir.
He said the alleged political victimisation that PPP leader Chaudhry Yasin and his family faced in AJK was condemnable.
Bilawal said Chaudhry Yasin also survived an attempted assassination attack and when he tried to register a First Information Report, instead of writing a case against the attackers, the police filed a case against Chaudhry Yasin.
The PPP chief said that if political retaliation against the PPP did not stop, he would protest in AJK himself. “(Prime Minister) Imran Khan has not been able to digest the victory of PPP in Kashmir and uses disgraceful tactics to take revenge. The Prime Minister is taking political revenge by interfering unconstitutionally in Kashmir’s affairs,” the PPP Chairman said.
He said Imran Khan had directly blamed the PPP candidate for the tragic incident of killing of two PTI workers in the Charhoi Tehsil.
The PPP chief said that justice required a judicial inquiry to be conducted in the tragic killing of two people, as requested by Chaudhry Yasin.
He said Imran Khan’s alleged political victimisation was creating unrest within the Kashmiri and Pakistani community in United Kingdom.
Meanwhile, PPP Parliamentarians leader Shazia Atta Marri said that the PPP candidates were fully determined to maintain their victory in the constituency of LA-16 in AJK.
She added that the PPP workers of AJK will not allow anybody to steal the votes or do rigging. She said that PPP’s leader Qamarul Zaman had won the election contest already and withholding the election results of PPP’s candidates was an insult of people of the constituency.