ISLAMABAD: PPP activists in Islamabad and Rawalpindi staged protests on Friday against price hike, increase in poverty and unemployment.

The party organised the protests after Friday prayers on the call of PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.

In Islamabad, the demonstration was held in E-11 where workers and activists carried party flags, and chanted slogans against the government and in favour of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari.

Addressing the gathering, PPP General Secretary Syed Nayyar Hussain Bukhari said Imran Khan’s energy minister claimed that Pakistan was comparatively a cheap country in the region.

“For him there is no inflation because he does not spend a single penny from his own pocket because petrol, electricity and gas are free for him and he is making fun of the poor,” he said.

“In 38 months, the people’s miseries have multiplied and they hardly make ends meet,” he said.

He urged the people to join the opposition to overthrow Imran Khan’s government as it was responsible for the price hike and problems being faced by them.

He said the finance minister said there would be more inflation but we inform him that the days of PTI government are numbered and people could not see the incompetent government to stay in power.

“It is time to say goodbye to these rulers. Bilawal is protesting against inflation as he is the heir of Benazir Bhutto who worked hard for the poor,” he said.

Terming Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed’s statements on Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan non-serious, the PPP leader said the minister changed his statement on the third day and his party every day.

“Why did you make an agreement that could not be implemented,” he said.

In Rawalpindi, PPP staged protest on I.J. Principal Road.

District President Chaudhry Zaheer, City General Secretary Chaudhry Iftikhar, Raja Mohammad Ali Minhas and others addressed the protest rally.

The speakers said it was time to intensify the struggle to overthrow of this incompetent government.

Under the leadership of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and Punjab President Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, PPP will once again prove that Punjab is a stronghold of the PPP.

Published in Dawn, October 30th, 2021