LAHORE: Shortly after Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari lashed out at Prime Minister Imran Khan and asked him to step down, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Ali Zaidi, Khurram Sher Zaman and Dr Shahbaz Gill returned the favour, slamming the Bhutto scion for doing politics at a time of crisis.
“I had a good laugh watching his ‘show’ on TV,” said Zaidi while talking to a news channel. “I can’t understand why people take him seriously. If he makes silly statements, he will be called stupid,” he added.
The federal minister repeated the same questions he had asked Bilawal on Twitter, pointing out that the Sindh government’s annual budget was Rs1,217bn while Rs114bn had been allocated for the health sector.
“Where is this money going,” he asked. “I don’t know who advises this man. This man is a joke on national TV. He doesn’t know anything at all and his party is in power in Sindh for the past 12 years,” he added.
Parliamentary Leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Sindh Assembly, Khurram Sher Zaman alleged that the PPP government has almost destroyed the Sindh province in its over 12 years of continuous rule.
Zaman alleged that Bilawal’s father Asif Zardari and aunt Faryal Talpur are both culprits of Sindh and its residents.
He said if PPP wants to compare performance in times of coronavirus then they should answer for all the ration that has gone ‘missing’. “Who got the 2 million ration bags?” he questioned.
He said that he feels sadness knowing the fact that the Sindh government has eaten away critical ration supplies of the poor segment of the province.
PM’s aide Dr Shahbaz Gill lashed out at Bilawal too, saying that the PPP chairman’s press conference was an admission of his failure to manage the coronavirus situation.
“You and your chief minister are responsible for people from Lyari to Landhi, not the federal government,” Gill wrote on Twitter.
He urged the PPP to provide relief to labourers and workers across the province instead of lashing out at the federal government.
“The propaganda of those who are ruling Sindh for the past 30 years won’t succeed,” he said. “Bilawal should tell us what the Sindh government is doing apart from hurling accusations at the centre?”
