PPP foundation day: Bilawal laments institutions' silence over Panama scandal

LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto said former prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gillani was disqualified over a letter, but institutions are quite over the biggest corruption scandal.

The PPP chairperson was addressing a gathering on PPP's Foundation Day. He said that the dictatorship of ‘Takht-e-Raiwind’ will be abolished.

Bilawal Bhutto reached Lahore from Dubai overnight to take part in the party’s foundation day celebrations, which started from today (Wednesday).

The young chairman was welcomed by the party’s top leadership upon his arrival, including PPP Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira, Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah and Nadeem Afzal Chan, who along with a large number of party workers received him carrying party flags.

The 49th founding day of PPP is being celebrated with zeal countrywide. The party started its weeklong foundation day celebrations in Lahore, PPP’s birthplace, today. Bilawal will address various rallies throughout the week.

PPP leaders and workers started flocking to Lahore to participate in the foundation day celebrations. Bilawal said on the occasion that the doors to Bilawal House are open to all and requested his party workers to join in the making of a ‘new’ PPP.

The PPP chairman welcomed his party workers with various lavish dishes ahead of the celebrations.