ISLAMABAD — PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari addresses a ceremony marking the completion of one million housing units for people affected by the 2021 floods in Sindh on Tuesday. KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday again advised the PML-N-led federal government to adopt reconciliation rather than engaging in confrontation with the opposition, emphasising the need for the government to also take its coalition partners into confidence on key issues.
Bilawal, whose party supports the ruling coalition without becoming part of the government at the Centre, expressed these views on Tuesday while addressing a function organized at the completion of one million housing units for people affected by the 2021 floods in Sindh. According to the PPP chief, people do not expect their governments to divide the nation and pit people against each other. “People expect their government to work to make their lives easier,“ he said.
The federal government has been at odds not only with the opposition, including Imran Khan’s PTI—whose Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government was suspended after the imposition of emergency and governor’s rule in K-P last month—but also with Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s JUI-F. After Fazl’s scathing criticism of the federal government and the powers that be following the K-P emergency, a number of federal ministers attacked the JUI-F chief as government authorities started issuing notices to Fazl-linked businesses and people for alleged rule violations. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of a hospital in Larkana earlier on November 7, Bilawal urged the federal government and political parties to set aside their differences and engage all political, social and provincial stakeholders to tackle the economic crisis.