PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Sunday that if the opposition was willing to fight against terrorism and “we agree on a plan”, governor’s rule and emergency imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa could end.
He made these remarks while speaking to the media in Karachi, where he was visiting the Karsaz Monument on the 19th anniversary of the Karsaz bombing.
His statement comes a week after the Centre imposed governor’s rule and emergency in KP, citing the provincial government’s “deliberate disengagement” from the fight against terrorism. The move also followed a mobilisation drive and protest march by the PTI, which was in power in KP and in opposition in the Centre, to demand the release of its jailed founder, Imran Khan.
In his media talk, Bilawal said the country had reached a point where “terrorist attacks are taking place from Khyber to Khuzdar”.
He regretted that when the government changed in Afghanistan, “our government also decided to invite the terrorists who were in Afghanistan to come back and live in our Swat, our Malakand, our former tribal areas.”
He added that terrorists who were in jail in Pakistan were also freed.
“Today, Pakistan is suffering the losses from these wrong decisions,” Bilawal said.
He added that the country had now once again reached the point where “some forces want to take down Pakistan’s flag from Swat” and there was a fight against terrorism ongoing across the entire country, while personnel of the army, police, and the public were being targeted.
However, he added, in the province where the highest number of terrorist incidents were taking place — KP — the chief minister of that province had vowed that he would not face the terrorists.
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