Bilawal Bhutto: Supreme Court should apologise for judicial murder of ZAB

Addressing the Central Executive Committee of the PPP at Naudero, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) reference pending in the court provides a golden opportunity for the Apex Court to "right the wrongs of the past". In what was his first full-blown political discourse that analysts would interpret as his formal launch into politics, Bilawal said that he did not believe if the Sharifs of Lahore could get their cases disposed of, ZAB could not get justice. Bilawal said a prime minister from Sindh is hanged while a prime minister from Punjab is freed. “Let’s hope the court doesn’t repeat double standards,” he said on the eve of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's anniversary.

The PPP chairman said that Mukhtaran Mai’s case should be heard afresh. He said all terrorists should be hanged after a proper trial. And the Supreme Court of Pakistan should apologise as an institution for ZAB’s judicial murder. Without referring to the SC call of writing Swiss letter, Bilawal said the elected Prime Minister of Pakistan would not violate the Consitution of Pakistan, and he would not violate the Vienna conventions. "No one will be allowed to have a trial of the corpses of the martyres." Gesturing to Prime Minister Gilani sitting next to President Zardari on the atage, Bilawal said the Prime Minister would prefer top go to barracks instead of violating the law of the land. "You may lose your government, but you would not desecrate the graves of the martyres.......History has proven us innocent. History will prove us innocent....The Bhuttos of Larkana will also see the justice being serves.....There is a court beyond the Supreme Court; the court of the people of Pakistan." At the end of his otherwise English speech, Bilawal uttered an Urdu slogan in favour of his party. Aitzaz Ahsan was amongst the party stalwart present through the speech. Aitzaz is representing the PM in the contempt case.