LAHORE, April 9: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said his party will free south Punjab from the ‘throne of Raiwind’ in the next elections, sources reported on Sunday.
“PPP has the best plans for poverty-hit masses and we will cleanse south Punjab of PML-N,” he said while speaking at a party’s conference in Lahore.
Bilawal went on to say it was upsetting for him to know that the literacy rate in south Punjab stood at only 12%. “The days of deprivation are now numbered.” The PPP leader added that people should get prepared for a new dawn of progress and equal opportunities.
Killers of a PPP worker, he said, were roaming around in the Haroonabad area and police are not ready to arrest them. “In reality, PML-N, which boasts about transparent investigation, is involved in the killing.”
In February, PPP Punjab’s leader Shaukat Basra was injured while his personal assistant killed in an exchange of fire in Bahawalnagar district.
Basra was on his way to participate in a rally when he got into a heated argument with members of a rival party in Haroonabad neighbourhood, following which an exchange of fire took place, injuring several people.-Agencies
