Bilawal Bhutto asks Imran Khan to apologize for his wrongdoings
Urging former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan to beg forgiveness for what he called his wrongdoings, former foreign minister and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Monday that Imran was reaping what he had sown, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
Speaking outside the Supreme Court (SC) building with his sister Aseefa Bhutto and aunt Sanam Bhutto standing alongside him after the hearing of late prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s (ZAB) hanging case, he, while referring to the assertions made by the PTI leaders in the past that the state institutions were independent, said that the party should now go and seek remedy from these institutions. “I remember that the PTI chairman would say that he wanted to hang hundreds of corrupt politicians,” he said, “We must bear this thing in mind that what happened to the politicians in the past was worse than what is happening to the PTI today.”
“شہید ذوالفقار علی بھٹو کے عدالتی قتل پر صدراتی ریفرنس میں پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی کو انصاف ضرور ملے گااور یہ نا صرف ایک موقع ہے جس سے ہم اپنی تاریخ کو درست کرسکتے ہیں بلکہ سپریم کورٹ اپنے ادارے پر لگے ہوئے اس داغ کو بھی دھو سکتی ہے۔”
— PPP (@MediaCellPPP) January 8, 2024
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At the same time, however, he called for laying to rest the politics of confrontation. “All stakeholders will have to rectify their mistakes,” he asserted.
Bilawal said he was sure that general elections would be held on February 8, 2024 since Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Qazi Faez Isa had said that there was no doubt that the polls would be held as per schedule.
He expressed the hope that the apex court would decide the case of the late prime minister’s hanging after the elections.
عمران خان نے پاکستان کی سیاست میں جس چیز کا آغاز کیا اب اسے وہ خود بھگتنا پڑرہا ہے، ہمیں آگے جاکر اس قسم کا ماحول بنانا چاہیئے تاکہ سیاستدان سیاست کریں، خدمت کریں اور عوام کی نمائندگی کریں۔
— PPP (@MediaCellPPP) January 8, 2024
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He was of the view that ZAB’s case was unprecedented in nature. “This is another thing what we are witnessing today is akin to what had befallen the late prime minister. It was high time we rectified our mistakes and lay the foundation of a prosperous future,” he asserted.
PPP chairman went on to say that it had been the PPP’s demand for the last several years that the case should be fixed for hearing as early as possible since martyrs should get justice. “One of the former chief justices had said that judges gave verdicts under pressure,” he concluded.
“ہم چاہتے ہیں کہ انتخابات ملتوی کروانے کیلئے اب کوئی بہانہ نہ بنے اور ہر صورت میں 8 فروری کو الیکشن ہوں۔
— PPP (@MediaCellPPP) January 8, 2024
پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی عوام پر بھروسہ کرتی ہے اور جو فیصلہ عوام کرے گی ہمیں تسلیم ہوگا۔”
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چیئرمین پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی بلاول بھٹو زرداری، بی بی آصفہ بھٹو زرداری اور بی بی صنم بھٹو شہید ذوالفقار علی بھٹو کے صدارتی ریفرنس کی سماعت کے لیے سپریم کورٹ کے روم نمبر ایک میں موجود ہیں۔@BBhuttoZardari @AseefaBZ pic.twitter.com/mVVnuqRbWT
— PPP (@MediaCellPPP) January 8, 2024
Reporter: Amanat Gishkori