PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari called on all political parties on Wednesday to set differences aside and stand united against the growing challenge of terrorism.
Addressing lawyers of the high court bar in Peshawar, the PPP scion condemned yesterday’s terrorist attack in DI Khan. Bilawal said that terrorism was rising in the country, and it can only be fought together, reiterating that no single party can fight it alone.
“If we continue to fight each other, the enemy will keep taking advantage of it,” he added.
The former foreign minister maintained that Pakistan had made unparalleled sacrifices to root out terrorism, and commended the people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) for bearing the most amount of sacrifices in the country’s war against terrorism.
“We had eliminated terrorism and the world was admitting that Pakistan had brought terrorism under control,” the PPP leader stated. “But then, without the approval of the parliament, and taking the people in confidence, criminals involved in heinous terrorist attacks were released from jails.”
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Bilawal further said that immigrants were allowed into the country without any checks when the government in Afghanistan was overthrown. Lamenting this decision, the PPP chairman stated that it has taken the country 10 years behind. He said the terrorist attack in DI Khan yesterday was an example of that.
The former minister maintained. “Due to this one decision, the police, army as well as the people have been suffering”. He asserted that the families of those martyred in the Army Public School (APS) attack should be informed about “who traded their [children’s] blood and how”.
