LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto on Friday said that the government will have to accept the opposition-proposed Terms of Reference (TORs) in the investigation of the Panama leaks issue, adding that the PPP wants across the board accountability regarding the matter.
While addressing the party session at the Bilawal House in Lahore today, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto said that the party wants that the issue of the Panama leaks commission be resolved with dialogue between the government and opposition parties.
He said that the Supreme Court has rejected the government’s terms of reference and that it will now have to sit with the opposition and draft new TORs.
Referring to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali's response the government's letter to form the judicial commission, the PPP chairman said that the decision taken by the judiciary was “another loss for the government.”
The PPP leader said that accountability should begin from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Speaking about the by-election on Thursday in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly’s PK-8 constituency in Peshawar, Bilawal said that the government was not letting go of its ‘deceitful practices of electoral rigging”.
Both the ruling Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) and the PPP claimed having won the by-poll in the constituency. Bilawal said that the PPP candidate won the by-polls in Peshawar's PK-8, but the results had later been changed.
The PPP chairman expressed his intentions of visiting all major cities of Punjab to address public rallies in the near future.
"Good days are near for the PPP and things will take a positive turn in Punjab too," he said.
Bilawal directed organizing committees within the party to arrange programs in the province and assured that he would visit every city where he is invited.
PPP South Punjab Coordination Committee members Sayed Yousaf Raza Gillani, Shoukat Basra, Toochi Khan and Nawazish Ali Peerzada, PPP Central Punjab Coordination Committee members Raja Pervez Ashraf, Rana Farooq Ahmad Khan, Chaudhry Manzoor and Nadeem Kaira were attended the separate meetings. Political Secratory to Chairman, Jameel Soomro also present on the occasion.
Bilawal critises government for adopting anti-peasant policies
During the meeting Bilawal strongly criticized the Nawaz League's central and Punjab governments for adopting anti-peasant and anti-growers policies and said that both Sharif brothers are bent upon cripplingthe farming community but Pakistan Peoples Party shall never allow them to succeed in their nefarious designs.