Bilawal tweets retort to slurs on slain mother
By Our Staff Reporter
2016-11-23
LAHORE: Sharply reacting to statements of PML-N and PTI leaders about slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari criticised the parties for maligning his mother 10 years after her assassination.
`Nakaam league and Nainsaf league are still attacking Benazir Bhutto a decade after her martyrdom,` the PPP chairman said in a tweet on Tuesday.
The tweet comes in response to sate minister Abid Sher Ali`s claim that Ms Bhutto`s name was also included in Panama Papers and assertion of PTPs Naeemul Haq that the Qatari prince`s letter presented by the Sharifsbefore the Supreme Court on the issue was `doubtful` like the will of Ms Bhutto made public by Asif Zardari after her murder.
Hours after his statement from London, Mr Haq denied he had talked of Ms Bhutto`s will.
The young PPP leader, however, urged the jiyalas (diehard Bhutto loyalists) to remain calm and don`t react violently to the assertions.
`Let them do politics, we serve Bhuttoism,`tweets Bilawal.
In another tweet, he claimed that `the PPP has always done high moral ground politics, pledging to follow in his mother`s footsteps.
Lashing out at the PML-N, he said the `Nakaam League couldn`t even face a day of dictatorship, went packing with their handbags,` a reference to ouster of Prime Minister Sharif by the then armychiefPErvezMusharraf in October 1999.
`SMBB [Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto] can never be compared or equated to cowards,` the tweet reads.
Meanwhile, Punjab PPP president Qamar Zaman Kaira warned the PTI leadership of a `matching response` if it again dared to give derogatory remarks against the PPPleadership.
`Demonstrate maturity as you know how far we can go,` Kaira warned the party.