Co-chairman Pakistan People’s Party, Asif Ali Zardari Saturday rejected reports that his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s was angry with him over certain political decisions.
“There is no truth in the rumours, propagandized by our rivals, that I and Bilawal are drifting apart,” Zardari said addressing a memorial rally held here in connection with Shaheed Benzair Bhutto’s seventh death anniversary.
Delivering an impassioned speech, the widower of late prime minister of Pakistan, said that had the carnage of Jiyalas (the PPP’s diehard workers) in Karachi been taken seriously back in the day a tragedy like Peshawar school massacre would not have come to pass today.
“If they had nailed the assassins of late Benazir Bhutto those innocents, who were slaughtered in Peshawar might be alive today,” he said.
Zardari today’s address was damage-control-centric as he tried his best to dispel the prevalent impression that the PPP was falling apart.
“Let me tell you Makhdoom Amin Fahim has never betrayed the party in the past nor will he ever in the future,” said he.
Getting down to the hot potato of military courts, to be formed for the speedy trials of terror suspects, he said that the PPP had always been against the draconian laws.
“We don’t want anyone to be persecuted under such laws. Mian Sahib (Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif), watch out lest you and I should be thrown in the jail,” the PPP leader said vowing his party would make sure the military courts were not used for victimization.
Making a mocking allusion to the former military ruler General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf, Zardari said had the Billa (tomcat) taken a notice of the terrorist activities in the past things would have been different now.
Meanwhile, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who is London-bound due to his mysterious illness, used social media website Twitter to affirm his father’s denial of any mutual differences.
“Sadar Zardari Kamaan hai aur Bilawal teer Salam Benazir (President Zardari is a bow and Bilawal an arrow. I salute you Benazir),” said a tweet that appeared on his Twitter handle.
