PPP Chairman and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday strongly condemned police raid on the house of PkMAP chief and a candidate in the presidential election Mahmood Khan Achakzai. Speaking on the floor of the House in the National Assembly on Monday, Bilawal Bhutto said the February 8 elections are being “made controversial for no reason” by incidents like raid on a presidential candidate’s residence. Bilawal later requested the National Assembly speaker to give Achakzai a chance to speak. However, when Achakzai, who is the PTI-SIC’s presidential candidate, stood up to speak the assembly’s YouTube livestream went blank.

During his speech, Bilawal assailed the violence that claimed the lives of several election candidates and workers, recalling the hand-grenade attacks in Balochistan and across Pakistan prior to the February 8 elections. Bilawal urged veteran lawmakers, many of whom have been in this House six times, to make decisions that benefit the youth and coming generations. “Past decisions that have been made have completely ruined the country,” he added. Bilawal remarked that he was disappointed by the foul language used during election of prime minister in Sunday’s National Assembly session.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)