KARACHI: Proceeding with his diatribe against the legislative, Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has cautioned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of dire consequences if the later fails to meet his four demands by December 27.
Bilawal’s demands include formation of a parliamentary committee on national security, adopting PPP-drafted bill on Panama Papers leaks probe, implementing the decision of the all-parties conference chaired by Asif Zardari on China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and appointing a full-time foreign minister.
Addressing to media representatives at Bilawal House here on Tuesday, after December 27, the PPP’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) and its federal council will hold their first joint meeting since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and decide on the party’s future strategy. Bilawal said if the prime minister failed to respond to the PPP’s demand for a bill to probe the Panama Papers leaks by December 27, then that they (Nawaz Government) would face dire consequences. “On the off chance that he is not willing to respond to our demand for a bill to probe Panama Papers leaks, if he conceding that he is not the country’s democratically elected Prime Minister but rather an Amirul Momineen who is not answerable to nobody, and then after December 27, we will teach him how to be an opposition government and will demand answers from him,” Bilawal said.
Bilawal further said “the premier had jeopardised his children’s political future by buying properties overseas in their name.” Commenting on the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Bilawal said the CPEC was the brainchild of former President Asif Ali Zardari and when it was getting to be distinctly disputable, the then government called an All Parties Conference (APC) to disperse qualms and develop consensus. “It is our straightforward demand to implement the decision taken in the APC on CPEC,” the PPP chairman said.
