PPP seriously concerned over challenging situation in country
 

KARACHI: The Pakistan People's Party has said that it is seriously concerned over the challenging situation in the country while the party has been doing intra-party consultation to adopt a strategy at the national level against the show of Indian aggression on Pakistani borders.

Speaking at a press conference along with other senior PPP leaders on Saturday, Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah said that Chairman People's Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had convened a meeting of senior party leaders to consult them on the present situation.

He said the PPP’s chairman had done consultation with the party’s leaders on the issues of Indian aggression on Pakistani borders, the Indian threats to scrap the Indus Water treaty, and possible response against India in the form of protest rallies or other forms of public agitation.

The opposition leader said that Chairman Bilawal Zardari and the entire party had been highly concerned over the current situation being faced by the country. He said the government had been unduly delaying convening of an All Parties Conference on the issue of Indian aggression and threats against Pakistan.

Also speaking on the occasion, PPP's senior leader Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan termed as ridiculous the Indian claim of “surgical strikes” across the Line of Control in the Pakistani side of Kashmir. He said instead, the PPP considered the events of 29 September as merely a show of Indian aggression inside Pakistan from across the border.

Aitzaz Ahsan said that the bill moved by the combined opposition in the National Assembly on the issue of Panama Papers’ leaks should be passed so to logically conclude the allegations levelled against politicians on the issue.

He said the PPP would be constrained to take the issue of allegations related to the Panama Papers’ leaks to the masses in the country in case the government opposed the opposition-moved bill in parliament on the issue.

He said it was the firm opinion of the PPP on the issue of Panama Papers’ leaks that accountability on thorough and transparent basis should be done against the politicians and leaders named in the scandal.

The PPP leader said that key investigative agencies in the country NAB (National Accountability Bureau), FIA (Federal Investigation Agency), and SECP (Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan), etc, were under the direct influence of the prime minister, so it would be unwise to expect an investigation from these agencies on just basis on the issue of Panama Papers’ leaks.

He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his speech at the United Nations should have mentioned the Indian agent Kulbhushan Yadav and the issue of undue Indian interference in Balochistan.

Also speaking, PPP's Central Information Secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira said the government had done a poor act as it had tried to privatise national institutions, a process that completely lacked transparency.

He said the goverment was **t willing to talk with concerned stakeholders on important national issues, including foreign policy of the country. He said the People's Party would never allow to privatise the State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan and handing over of this important organisation to certain favourite persons. He said that recently Pakistan Steel Mills in Karachi had given 157 acres of its land to the Punjab government, which was a sheer illegal act as such moves would widen the gulf between the provinces.

A**ther PPP leader Sherry Rehman said that People's Party had been keenly observing the foreign policy of the present government. She said that India had made a sheer false claim of committing surgical strikes against Pakistan.

She said that India could **t unilaterally take any action against the Indus Waters Treaty. He said that a solution to the Kashmir issue could **t be sought through military means but India had been constantly doing aggression through military means on the Kashmir problem.

She said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while delivering his speech at the United Nations’ General Assembly, should have talked on the issue of Indian interference in Balochistan.

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