The proposal came from former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf during a meeting of south Punjab leaders on Wednesday. The ex-PM is himself facing a number of corruption charges currently being investigated by FIA and NAB.
Raja suggested formation of a 4-member internal accountability commission to probe the charges against party leaders. Bilawal reportedly accepted the suggestion and desired that modalities for formation of such a body should be worked out.
Pervaiz Ashraf later told reporters after the meeting that PPP leaders were being implicated in false cases of corruption and their media trial was going on unabated. He said that an internal accountability system was necessary to ascertain the facts behind the corruption allegations against party men.
The meeting was attended by Bakhtawar Bhutto, Faryal Talpur, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Sherry Rehman, Makhdum Ahmed Mehmud, Nadeem Afzal Chan, Hina Rabbani Khar and others.
Speaking on the occasion, Sherry Rehman said that all party men should fight together to take the party to new heights by organizing it in each town and village.
She also stressed the need for holding of youth conventions and policy dialogue in each province. She said PPP never compromised on rights of people and fought against terrorism. But it was hard to fathom that PPP was facing allegations of terror financing, she lamented.
Earlier, during course of the proceedings, Major Imtiaz, Benazir Bhutto’s security officer, broke to tears when he was given the mike to speak his mind. He was accompanying BB at the time of attack on her vehicle in Rawalpindi in 2007. Bilawal went to him and consoled him with a hug.
Meanwhile, Bilawal has announced to address a workers’ convention at Bilawal House Lahore on coming Saturday. For security reasons, party leaders have been asked to prepare lists of workers who would be attending the gathering on that day.
Also, Bilawal’s media advisor, Jamil Soomro Wednesday dismissed rumors that Bilawal was leaving Lahore for Dubai to meet his father Asif Ali Zardari.
“There is no truth in these reports”, he told The Nation, adding that Bilawal was scheduled to address a workers’ convention at Bilawal House, Lahore on Saturday.
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