{"id":25743,"date":"2023-11-18T04:56:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T04:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/bilawal-warns-electables-against-joining-pml-n\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T04:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T04:56:04","slug":"bilawal-warns-electables-against-joining-pml-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/bilawal-warns-electables-against-joining-pml-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilawal warns \u2018electables\u2019 against joining PML-N"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>MARDAN: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has warn\u00aded political leaders not to join PML-N as they would lose their \u201cpolitical weightage\u201d if they enter the party\u2019s fold.<\/p>\n<p>He made these remarks on Friday while addressing a workers\u2019 convention at the hujra of the late senator Muhammad Ali Khan in Mardan.<\/p>\n<p>The PPP chairman also warned that people tolerated \u201cselected rule\u201d in the past but won\u2019t tolerate it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Calling out his rival PML-N, whom he referred to as \u2018Mehngai League\u2019, the PPP leader said: \u201cThose stuck in the politics of the past are still looking for electables\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote-level-1\">\n<p>Says anyone siding with \u2018Mehngai League\u2019 will lose political influence<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While accepting that electables have some political influence, he added that anyone joining the PML-N \u201cwon\u2019t remain an electable anymore\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a ground reality. People are conscious now,\u201d he said and advised political parties to look towards the people and not left or right.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1789313\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPPP is a democratic and federal party. We have always trusted people. We want all the parties to trust people too. Trust your politics. Trust your manifesto\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In an apparent reference to the powers that be, the PPP chairman said: \u201cIf someone is imposed again and if selection happens again, people will be at a loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the people were aware of the poor economic condition the country was in, leading to historic price hikes, poverty and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is only one solution to all of this: to make PPP victorious in the upcoming elections so that the \u2018rule of the people\u2019 can be established \u2014 a government of the farmers, labourers and youngsters, helping the country emerge from the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur politicians are stuck in the past. They neither think of the present nor the future of this country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bhutto-Zardari said the PPP wanted to end the politics of hatred and division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wishes to establish new traditions that allow the country to progress and prosper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur fight is not with any other political party, but poverty, price hikes and unemployment,\u201d the PPP chairman said. \u201cThe PPP will find solutions for these with the people by its side. The next government will be of the PSF, PYO and the jiyalas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The party, he said, was ready to accept the decision of the people. \u201cWe are going to complete the mission of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Promising to return to Mardan Division to hold public gatherings once the election schedule was announced, he assured party activists that the PPP was a party of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to remind people that the PPP has always served the people, especially the downtrodden masses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto gave land ownership to the common person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe struggled for the sake of the people and accepted martyrdom, after which shaheed Mohta\u00adrma Benazir Bhutto held up the torch to strive for the rights of the people for three decades while fighting two dictators. It is with the help of the people that one unarmed woman faced general Zia and general Musharraf without ever backing down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARDAN: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has warn\u00aded political leaders not to join PML-N as they would lose their \u201cpolitical weightage\u201d if they enter the party\u2019s fold. He made these remarks on Friday while addressing a workers\u2019 convention at the hujra of the late senator Muhammad Ali Khan in Mardan. The PPP chairman also warned that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/11\/1809301417027e4.png?r=093025","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}