Are you declared a traitor if you don't follow a script?': Bilawal lashes out at 'fascist trolls'

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari lashed out at the government for terming his statements against Pakistan’s narrative, and advised his social media followers to read, think, speak and ignore the ‘fascist trolls’ who are running the country.

“What the hell is a narrative? Is life now a fascist screenplay where if you don’t follow a script, you are declared a traitor? Screw you and your narrative. I have an ideology and my ideology doesn’t change [but] your narrative will keep changing. Read, think, speak and ignore fascist trolls who run this country,” he tweeted on Friday.

WTH is a narrative? Is life now a fascist screenplay where if u don’t follow a script u r declared traitor? Screw u and ur narrative, I have an ideology my ideology doesn’t changes ur narrative will keep changing. Read, think, speak & ignore fascist trolls who run this country.

— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) March 22, 2019

Bilawal has been criticising the government and demanding to rein in militants. He claimed that three ministers of the incumbent government have ties with the militants, one among them is Finance Minister Asad Umar.

Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Afridi on Thursday last slammed Bilawal and said that he is criticising the government on terrorism at a sensitive time.

Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid also criticised Bilawal. He alleged that Bilawal was speaking India’s language when he was slamming the government for looking the other way when it came to terrorists.

“They have been taken into protective custody so that the Indian planes don’t blow them up,” Bilawal told reporters on Wednesday last. He was commenting on the federal government’s recent crackdown against banned outfits, including Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat-ud-Dawa.

Bilawal and the lawmakers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) traded barbs over the past couple of weeks as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is investigating the PPP leaders and his family members, among others, in various corruption cases. Opposition lawmakers have accused the government of using the NAB for political victimisation, but the government and the NAB have both denied such allegations.

Prime Minister Imran Khan in a meeting with senior journalists on Thursday last had lamented that Pakistan has “sublet its narrative of religion to uneducated clerics.” The Prime Minister said this in an allusion to the Afghan ‘jihad,’ adding that Pakistan failed to promote the state narrative of Islam since 9/11 bombings. He said the government would implement the National Action Plan (NAP) at all costs.