DADU: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday lashed out at Prime Minister Imran Khan and said he had gathered his coterie of the corrupt in Islamabad and celebrated with them three years of his government’s failures.

Bilawal said at party workers’ gatherings in Kotdiji, Khairpur Mirs and other places enroute to Khairpur as he traveled along the road from Nawabshah that people were either committing suicide after losing permanent jobs or they were ending their lives for fear of unemployment.

He said that instead of creating new jobs, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government had terminated many from their services and forced them to take to the streets. An uncountable number of educated youth were made to run from pillar to post for jobs over the past three years of PTI rule in centre, he said.

He said that Benazir Bhutto had provided jobs to youths but this government had sacked employees. All terminated employees would be reinstated in their jobs after the PPP formed next government in centre as employment was basic right of every citizen, he said.

He said the prime minister appeared worried and he would always remain worried, probably over his failures. He had promised people to provide them houses before election but how many houses had been built by federal government in Khairpur and other Sindh towns, he said.

He urged people to unite and support PPP against Imran Khan and his government as PTI had failed to deliver and pushed the country to the verge of economic crisis. Imran had destroyed democracy while PPP was the only guarantor of democratic system in the country, he said. Hence, he said, the PTI government had forfeited its right to rule the country.

Earlier, PPP chairman, who was accompanied by party leaders Manzoor Wassan, Shaharyar Wassan, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Syeda Nafisa Shah and others, visited Pir Fazal Shah and Syed Pyar Ali Shah and offered condolence to them on the death of former party leader Syed Qamar Zaman Shah.

Our Sukkur correspondent adds: Bilawal said at party workers’ convention at Wassan House in Kotdiji that his party would no more trust any ally in its struggle against the present system and would single handedly remove PTI present government with the help of its workers.

He said that PTI was spreading propaganda to misguide people that Imran Khan was really working hard for Pakistan while the fact was that his illegitimate regime had been imposed on people.

He said that Sindh had had enough of injustices meted out to it by the federal government and now centre should be prepared for peoples’ reaction. “What Indus River System Authority has been doing with Sindh has never been done in the history of Pakistan,” he said.

Bilawal said that they were not begging rather they were asking for their constitutional and fundamental rights.

Meanwhile, delegations of different employees’ unions on Sunday called on special adviser to Sindh chief minister Manzoor Hussain Wasan and demanded formation of a legal team consisting of Aitzaz Ahsan, Raza Rabbani and Farooq H. Naik to defend the 2010 law passed by PPP government which had reinstated 16,000 people in SSGC.

Leaders of trade unions, Amjad Lashari, Riyaz Hussain Shaikh, Abdul Shakoor, Syed Mohammad Ali Shah, Khalil Shah and others, said the 16,000 employees — who were expelled by PML-N government and then reinstated by PPP under a special law — had once again been terminated on Supreme Court orders. The legal team must defend the law to save 16,000 employees and their families from starvation, they said.

Published in Dawn, August 30th, 2021