Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government would be sent packing by January 2021, and a ‘people’s government’ would take over, said Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while addressing a public gathering.
He also pointed out that even though Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) had not yet become a separate province, the PTI government at the center had already imposed taxes on the region’s people.
“Today, every section of the society was protesting against the PTI government,” he asserted while addressing the gathering at the main Skardu Bazaar as part of the party’s campaign for the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elections in November.
He also declared that the campaign for the right to rule and right to property belonged to the PPP.
“PPP is the only party which included the demands of people of Gilgit-Baltistan in its manifesto for elections in Pakistan in 2018,” he said.
He also went on to say that PPP was the only party advocating that people of GB should have their own province, representation in the Senate and the National Assembly of Pakistan.
He also warned that his party won’t allow stealing of votes in Gilgit-Baltistan.
Zardari stated that it was unfortunate that the ‘tyrants’ had snatched Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Shaheed Shahnawaz Bhutto, Shaheed Mir Murtaza Bhutto and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto from the people.
“I have gone to the smallest town and village in Gilgit-Baltistan and seen that Bhutto is alive at all those places,” Zardari declared.
Thousands of PPP workers from across the Baltistan division had shown up in the meeting.
Former Gilgit-Baltistan governor and PPP central leader Qamar Zaman Kaira, former chief minister Mehdi Shah, PPP GB president Amjad Hussain Advocate and Sadia Danish were also present on the occasion.