Bilawal to contest elections in 2018

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AFP
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Bilawal to contest elections in 2018
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Patron-in Chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced that he will be contesting the 208 general elections from his mother’s home constituency.

Speaking to reporters, Bilawal said that at a time when the country was dealing with devastation of floods, the sit-ins were a matter of ego. Bilawal added that the politics of sit-ins was frivolous. Bilawal was also critical of media coverage stating that if the media stopped showing the sit-ins, they would end.




The PPP Patron-in-Chief also termed the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Punjab statement of stopping attacks on Pakistan as positive. Bilawal said the TTP Punjab’s announcement did not mean that there should be no action on the acts of violence which took place in the past.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari added that Ali Haider Gilani was still in the custody of the Taliban and he should be released. Bilawal further said that no one could be allowed to carry out terrorist activity.

Bilawal emphasised that there was no question of Sindh being divided. He added that there had been development work in Punjab for the last 60 years and it was not fair to compare Punjab with Sindh.