Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Wednesday that the decision to appoint Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif as PML-N President was a controversial one.
Speaking to media personnel, Bilawal Bhutto slammed the Punjab chief minister, stating that he had to answer for the allegations against him in the Model Town massacre case and several others.
"Shehbaz Sharif has to answer for the allegations against him in Multan Metro Bus and Ashiana Housing schemes," he said.
Bilawal also slammed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, stating that the public was not at all concerned with the elder Sharif's disqualification.
"It is only the PPP that talks about the problems of the common man," he said. "The government is not at all concerned with the problems of the masses," he added.
Bilawal said that the people of Pakistan were only concerned about when the government would end the menaces of unemployment and terrorism.
The brother of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif took a small step closer to the premiership Tuesday after he was named head of the ruling party before a general election due this year.
The promotion of Shahbaz Sharif comes after the Supreme Court last year toppled his elder brother Nawaz following corruption allegations, then last week banned him from leading his eponymous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party.
The move by the judiciary sparked fresh fears of political infighting within the PML-N before the election due sometime in 2018, with Nawaz’s daughter Maryam Sharif gaining increasing influence over the party in recent months.
But the party presented a united front with the election of Shahbaz, while Nawaz was appointed the party’s guide “for life”.
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