PPP chairman plans to visit US in next few days
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has a plan to visit the United States in the next few days, sources in the party told Dawn on Sunday.
“You can say it is a private or an academic visit,” said a senior PPP office-bearer. He said Mr Bhutto-Zardari would be leaving for the US after July 10.
PPP’s information secretary and MNA Shazia Marri in a statement said the government people were “worried” over the PPP chairman’s visit to the US.
“The puppet rulers are worried about chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s visit to the US and Fawad Chaudhry, Shahbaz Gul and Farrukh Habib-like dwarf spokesmen are worried that their leader Imran Khan cannot go to the US without diplomatic immunity because pending cases in the courts of the US are his destiny,” Ms Marri said.
Meanwhile, Mr Bhutto-Zardari in a statement said that July 5 would always be remembered as the black day in Pakistan’s history.
“The military coup that toppled the first democratically-elected people’s government, led by Prime Minister Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, by a tin-pot dictator General Zia, marked the vicious assault on the democratic aspirations of the people of Pakistan,” he said.
Published in Dawn, July 5th, 2021
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Jul 05, 2021 09:23am
Bilawal Zardari is going to be another Hussain Haqqani.
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Jul 05, 2021 09:25am
Respected sir,
Please save our wealth.
Yours obediently
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Jul 05, 2021 09:26am
I guess he has something to sell!
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Jul 05, 2021 09:29am
The timing is interesting, right after we said no to US bases. This can be considered treason because we all know why he is going there.
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Jul 05, 2021 09:37am
I think this time Bilawal goes there to topple another democratic government. These many years have made PPP to learn this valuable lesson.
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Jul 05, 2021 09:49am
Good timing… US just sent 2 million doses of vaccine. Great opportunity to personally meet and thank Biden.
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Jul 05, 2021 09:57am
Whenever PPP politician or n league politician did USA yantra, nothing good came out for Pakistan. It benefited only them.
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Jul 05, 2021 10:07am
He is going there for "Yes Sir"
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Jul 05, 2021 10:07am
@Rahim, an Indian can not hide no matter what name he uses! 2.5 million doses, real cost may be at best $25 million!
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Jul 05, 2021 10:08am
looters.
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Jul 05, 2021 10:08am
Bilawal is not coming back as he has millions in foreign banks.
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Jul 05, 2021 10:10am
Zia was a puppet of the west and Saudis. He acted on their behalf and lost his life to them. He was as puppet as is Zardari - Bhuto clan. Vote PPP out of power
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Jul 05, 2021 10:13am
The US used its influence to get Benazir into power in Pakistan. Bilawal wishes to use the same formula and channel but unfortunately for him the circumstances have drastically changed.
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Jul 05, 2021 10:16am
We all know that such meetings are always behind the doors lobbing which obviously being financed heavily by concern party. Such money makes such meetings and makes lobbying firm more rich.
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Jul 05, 2021 10:18am
Yes to sell out the country - chap cannot be trusted just like Bhuttos before him
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Jul 05, 2021 10:24am
Meanwhile the great visionary kindhearted leader is still waiting a phone call
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Jul 05, 2021 10:39am
PPP --- the next Ruling party of Pakistan ?
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Jul 05, 2021 10:47am
Coup coming — regime change coming — US is going to overthrow the niazi government
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Jul 05, 2021 10:49am
Like Nawaz,Bilawal too would use international forum to wash his dirty laundry.
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Jul 05, 2021 10:49am
@nk, I think so too.
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Jul 05, 2021 11:11am
I say good ridence to bad sh_t let him go if he does go and and gets in cohoot with them about a regime change then he should be charged with treason he is nothing but a cronies son living off ill gotten wealth never worked a day in his life shame on the rest of the people in the party just letting him walk in and become the leader of the party you should be ashamed
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Jul 05, 2021 11:12am
Next proxy for a training session?
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Jul 05, 2021 11:12am
"“You can say it is a private or an academic visit,” said a senior PPP office-bearer."
Long time ago, AZ also came to the States on a private visit and the host was HH...and the rest is history!
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Jul 05, 2021 11:13am
@M. Emad, keep Dreaming !
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Jul 05, 2021 11:15am
The corrupt of the corrupt have the audacity to visit US!
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Jul 05, 2021 11:22am
He knows he can't fool Paistanis anymore. His career is over now. May be he is looking for another job there in the US.
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Jul 05, 2021 11:23am
After a big NO of IK, may I help you sir. What a shame.
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Jul 05, 2021 11:26am
Why ? Its an exercise in futility.
USA is not stupid to back Bilawal knowing PPP has zero chance of winning Punjab or for that matter any other province then poor Sindh.
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Jul 05, 2021 11:30am
He is going there to cry foul. Benazir too met with Biden when she was in self exile. She managed to put pressure on Gen. Musharraf for NRO for all ruling parties which worked. But times have change Pakistan reliance on US has reduced.
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Jul 05, 2021 11:56am
@Fastrack ,
If he was waiting for call. He should not have said, Absolutely Not. Now Bilawal may say absolutely Yes.
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Jul 05, 2021 11:58am
Another attempt to become a certified ' MEER JAFFAR'.
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Jul 05, 2021 12:00pm
@Rahim, Not likley. Bilawal is not a very high porifile powerful figure that will accord him a visit to the WH. I bet he will probably get to meet a handful of pro-Pakistani Congressmen or Senators at the most. Not even an invitation to the State Dept or anyone from the Biden Adminstration. US government knows who to talk to in Pakistan. BIlawal is not one of them.
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Jul 05, 2021 12:24pm
Dear Bilawal,
Please return all the looted wealth of the country. We do not give a damn care about your visit to the USA. You cannot do harm to Pakistan. Return the nation's money.
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Jul 05, 2021 12:31pm
Academic visit! Nice. Will he be teaching there or is he going there for continuing education?
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Jul 05, 2021 12:34pm
It may be a good sight seeing trip to USA knowing the dire economic situation in Sindh.
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Jul 05, 2021 12:36pm
After ruining PPP, is he trying to do the same to the country?
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Jul 05, 2021 12:41pm
I don't see anything wrong in him going to the U.S...... the U.S loves to have political figures from countries like Pakistan come and wait outside the offices of the Assistant to the Deputy to the Under Secretary who looks after the affairs of a bunch of countries. At the same time he can check up on the people managing his wealth stashed in America.
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Jul 05, 2021 12:48pm
Did he just taunt than imran khan cant go to USA? he is not dying to go nor he has any need to go other than as head of state or to collect donations from oversees pakistan.
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Jul 05, 2021 12:49pm
It appears that the "Sindh" card did not work...in search of a Trump card...voyage to US...just like his dad...years earlier.
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Jul 05, 2021 12:57pm
Imran Khan did accepted to hand over bases. They will go into second option to press their demands.
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Jul 05, 2021 12:59pm
Its quite shameful how much interference historically has happened and allowed ongoing. The great khan was right when he said country loses independence when it lives on loans. He vowed to never take loans but then came to a uturn
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Jul 05, 2021 12:59pm
After the failure of PDM now Billo turns to his masters in US but they have mistaken, Pakistan is changed now people knows who is protecting their hard earned money and who is looting.
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Jul 05, 2021 12:59pm
For sale
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Jul 05, 2021 01:00pm
@nk, yep and at a discount
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Jul 05, 2021 01:00pm
@Anti-Corruption , looking for his next home
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Jul 05, 2021 01:19pm
Looking for sponsors as Hussian Haqqani did
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Jul 05, 2021 01:24pm
"Academic" visit by Bilawal? That's the joke of the year!
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Jul 05, 2021 01:30pm
If you do go please don't come back.
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Jul 05, 2021 01:42pm
Finally, he is visiting the U.S. land and people, which his family, friends, relative, peers, pals, associates, colleagues and party members have been condemning since last many decades as Uncle Sam and the biggest bastion of capitalism as well as imperialism.
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Jul 05, 2021 02:01pm
Looks like Bilawal finally got multiple entry US visa.
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Jul 05, 2021 02:02pm
He won't come back, put him on ECL.
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Jul 05, 2021 02:05pm
USA will go into shock after finding out that Bilawal is dumber than they thought.
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Jul 05, 2021 02:08pm
Next PM of Pakistan will be ? who knows more US then us.
1- Malala
2- Bilawal
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Jul 05, 2021 02:25pm
Bilawal being adopted by daddy Biden?
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Jul 05, 2021 02:29pm
@Kamran, May be an hybrid MalBil or BilMal?
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Jul 05, 2021 02:33pm
He thinks he will use the United States for his own interests, but in reality he will be used as ever.
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Jul 05, 2021 02:37pm
If he goes to the US at this time we will know he has sold us out.. better for him to sit here and stand by the people of pakistan who the US is pressuring.
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Jul 05, 2021 02:39pm
Mr. President (Biden), please please make me the Prime Minister of Pakistan. I promise you that when in power, I will hand you Pakistan's bases and you can use it's air space as well.
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Jul 05, 2021 02:43pm
Why be an independent country then? If you do not want sovereignty, everybody else will be happy to enslave you.
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Jul 05, 2021 03:38pm
To visit his fathers New York flat
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Jul 05, 2021 03:46pm
@Mansur Ul Haque, your message makes no sense.Work on your English.
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Jul 05, 2021 03:48pm
@Kamran, NONE.
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Jul 05, 2021 04:20pm
What does Mr. Bilawal Zardari know about Pakistan?
Nothing.
What is the ability and capability of Mr. Bilawal Zardari?
Script-reading.
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Jul 05, 2021 04:23pm
@Adeel,
Mr. Adeel,
" After the failure of PDM now Billo turns to his masters in US but they have mistaken, Pakistan is changed now people knows who is protecting their hard earned money and who is looting.
Just like his mother Ms. (late) Benazir Zardari and his father Mr. Asif Ali Zardari.
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Jul 05, 2021 04:30pm
@Masud Ahmad,
Mr. Masud Ahmad
" I think this time Bilawal goes there to topple another democratic government. These many years have made PPP to learn this valuable lesson. "
From Mr. (late) Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to Mr. Bilawal Zardari not a single person of PPP was and is loyal and sincere to Pakistan and Pakistani nation.
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Jul 05, 2021 04:34pm
Is his friend Mr. James will accompany him who is residing with him in Bilawal House, Karachi?
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Jul 05, 2021 05:27pm
ZAB was hanged and who gave his execution title’shaheed’? That man divided Pakistan into two countries as he could never win to be PM. Sincerely
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Jul 05, 2021 05:44pm
Incompetent and irresponsible person who never worked or completed anything in life. He a dropout of Oxford too. Now wants to be PM of Pakistan. Pakistani public is not that naive now compare to his mom’s or grandfather’s time. Sincerely
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Jul 05, 2021 06:07pm
His visit will be a total failure politically. He won’t get anyone at the the White House, no Senator will meet him, perhaps he couple of congressmen will give him some time. Bilawal is nobody in Pakistani politics at the moment and US knows that. So he cannot do anything. Perhaps he will spend most of his time which his brother in law and sister if she is in US?
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Jul 05, 2021 10:16pm
Through history the powerful nations ruled the world, they installed rulers who reported to them and executed their orders, it is not any different now, the method has changed. The one who wishes to be the ruler is paying a visit to the powerful to plead his duplication.
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