Bilawal Bhutto Zardari censures govt for rising inflation

GHOTKI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday lashed out at the government for the rising inflation, ARY News reported.

“Labourers are forced to live a life in quandary. Where do the poor seek relief, while inflation is skyrocketing,” Bilawal Bhutto Zardari asked while addressing a public gathering in Ghotki.

He said commodities like petrol, gas, electricity, lentils and drugs were made expensive. He said on the one hand intensity of the hot weather was mounting and on the other hand loadshedding was being prolonged.

The PPP chief said conditions of the International Monetary Funds (IMF) were fulfilled prior to approaching it for loans. He said dollar had climbed up from Rs100 to Rs142.

He said the promises of giving 10 million jobs and five million houses could not be fulfilled.

“Millions of unemployed youth are roaming with their degrees. While, poor are being deprived of shelter in the name of anti-encroachment operation,” he said.

The scion of Bhutto dynasty rebuked the government for reintroducing the amnesty scheme.

He warned the government against any attempt to change the constitution.

“This constitution was achieved through our struggles and blood. We will not let any attempt to subvert the constitution succeed,” he said.

Bilawal Zardari said when the Pakistan Peoples Party got into power in 2008, terrorism had griped the country.

He said the rulers wanted to silence the PPP leaders by intimidation using the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

“I say everybody should be held accountable, nevertheless the system of accountability should not be based on revenge,” he said.

The PPP chairman blamed that no accountability could be made in the project of the Peshawar bus rapid transit system.