QUETTA: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while addressing the PPP-P workers convention here today has accused the incumbent government of disregarding people of the Province while charting out CPEC route.
He claimed that former president Asif Ali Zardari wanted the CPEC route to commence from Fata and Balochistan. But the PTI Government, he said, had changed the route in order to begin from Lahore and Sindh.
“We want the people of Balochistan to benefit from CPEC but this incompetent, unqualified puppet government has failed to provide you the benefits. Only PPP is capable and it is the only party to have ever strived to deliver the benefits of a project to the residents of the area it is launched in,” he held.
Pointing out that Balochistan was the province blessed with the resources, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari claimed only PPP-P could ensure that the benefits of the resources were delivered to the owners of the resources, the people of Balochistan.
He stated that it was evident that the power was being stolen from the people and handed over to the selected and the selectors. “The economy is not running for the benefit of the people but for the benefit of the selected and the selectors…We are not being led by our representatives but the selected and the selectors.”
Focusing on curbs imposed on Media he pointed out that interviews of the members of banned organisations, RAW agent Kulbhushan Jadhav, and IAF pilot Abhinandan were aired but that of former president Asif Ali Zardari was banned.
He further accused government of extra-judicial arrests saying: “Pakistan is the only country where numerous people go missing and the fault is always theirs and never the state’s.” Commenting on the inflation Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the selected prime minister was stealing the share of resources that should go to the provinces.
Bilawal Bhutto said that the selected was also placing the burden of his incompetency onto the people: “He who promised 10 million jobs and 5 million homes is not only stealing existing jobs but the roof over people’s heads in the name of encroachment,” he added.
According to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari due to suspension of subsidies the government was causing economic murder of farmers and elderly pensions (whose pensions were not increased). He noted from the white-collared worker to laborers, all were being swept away by the tsunami of inflation that Bilawal held was the result of PTI’s towing the IMF line.
PPP-P Chairman pointed out that Imran Khan had facilitated robbers and looters by introducing a tax amnesty scheme for them: “But there is no tax amnesty, no bailout for traders and farmers”. Bilawal claimed that PPP had battled price hikes, combated the global recession and entered into program with the IMF but safeguarded the people’s interests while doing so, while in power.
Zardari, he said, had brought a 100% increase in pensions, 150 per cent increase in salaries of civilians. He pointed out that PPP Govt had also brought about a 175% increase in the salaries of soldiers: “This is the difference between a people’s government and a selected government. We have to stand by you whereas they have to stand by their selectors,” he held.
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