ISLAMABAD, Jan 08 (NNI): 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.
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.”
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.
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. NNI
