Govt’s authoritarian regime cannot last, their countdown has begun, warns Bilawal

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari slamming Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government said that “government’s authoritarian regime cannot last, their countdown has begun”.

Addressing to media in Karachi, The PPP chairman said that country was failing on all fronts, including foreign and economic policy, as a ‘selected’ government had been imposed on Pakistan.

Commenting on sedition cases against Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leaders and Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider, he said that the government had gone so far in their revenge policy that they filed sedition charges.

"The country can no longer bear the burden of this government."

The PPP chairman said that the incumbent government oppresses the people everyday through new tactics. "Where will the people go?"

He said that political parties could not raise their voices in the parliament as it had been rendered a "rubber stamp" one.

"The media is stopped [from criticising the government] and our interviews are censored," he said. "Insha'Allah, all opposition parties, together, will finish this inept government."

Responding to a query about the government's Pakistan Island Development Authority Ordinance, he said: "No Pakistani who believes in the Constitution can tolerate that someone, through a presidential ordinance, overnight, tries to take over the islands of Balochistan and Sindh."

"We strongly condemn this act," Bilawal said.

He demanded that government to withdraw this "unconstitutional" ordinance Bilawal said that the "whole" province had unanimously rejected the islands' ordinance. "We will not allow you to take a single piece of land through an unconstitutional ordinance."

"The government should forget that the PPP will hold talks with it after its current policies," he said, adding that despite the whole province protesting, the government did not take back its ordinance.