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PPP-P’s public rally at Liaquat Bagh where BB was assassinated

RAWALPINDI (Ayub Park): Chairman PPP-P Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, while addressing a public rally held here today on the occasion of the 12th death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto, said he would complete her mission. 
Criticizing the PTI-Government, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari claimed that the puppet regime of political orphans was crumbling. According to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari held that there was a leadership and economic crisis in the country.
Saying that he would complete the unfinished mission of his mother in order to make sure that people get their due rights, Bilawal urged the masses to support him in ousting “this government of selected and political orphans as the people’s rule cannot be established without the PPP.”

He said that while his maternal grand father Z A Bhutto gave rights to laborers  as PM, his mother Benazir had fought two dictators. He said it was due to Benazir that Pakistan got much-needed missile technology.

Bilawal Bhutto accusing PTI-government of being anti-poor criticized removal of names from BISP program. Bilawal said: “This is not the independence that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah gave us. We will build the Pakistan that Benazir envisaged for you.”

The former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun-and-bomb attack at a PPP election rally in 2007 here at the very Liaquat Bagh.

A relevant piece published earlier: 

Benazir Bhutto was killed today in 2007 (Video and Text)

27th of December, 2019

LARKANA: The 12th death anniversary of Pakistan’s first female premier Benazir Bhutto is being observed today.

Amid hermetically-tight fool-proof security, party leaders are reaching Garhi Khuda Baksh – the ancestral village of Bhutto family – to pay homage to the late chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP-P). A large number of party workers too converged here from all over the country.

First ever female prime minister of Pakistan – who also happened to the first Muslim premier ever – was assassinated after addressing an electoral rally at Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on 27th December 2007.

Bilawal Bhutto addresses public gathering on the day Benazir’s procession was attacked on 18th Oct. 07

18th of October, 2019

KARACHI: Commemorating the 12th anniversary of the twin blasts that targeted former prime minister Benazir’s welcome procession near Karsaz here on 18th October 2007 and to pay tribute to the party workers who lost their lives in the tragedy, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is addressing a public gathering in front of Quaid‘s Mausoleum.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, claiming that PPP agents were not allowed to enter the polling stations, pledged that rigging carried out during yesterday’s by-poll for the Larkana PS-11 seat would be exposed. Calling the incumbent government selected Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that it was time they were sent back home as selected could not serve the people.

Holding that Prime Minister Imran Khan did not possess the ability to govern the country, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari stated: “Imran Khan neither has the capability nor seriousness to govern a country of 200 million people… Parliament has been side-lined and politicians have taken to the streets.”

He pointed out that the political opponents were sent to jail. Focusing on the macro economics he accused the PTI-Government had hypothecated the country to IMF and also stopped CPEC project: “

Alleging that the incumbent rulers had compromised on the issue of Kashmir he stated: “Even a blind person can see Kashmir has been sold out, and CPEC has been slowed down…The incompetent government should be removed for committing these crimes.” He said that in the last five decades PPP-P had witnessed a number of vicissitudes.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.