{"id":29999,"date":"2023-11-30T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/at-quetta-rally-zardari-calls-balochistan-heart-of-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T12:47:07","slug":"at-quetta-rally-zardari-calls-balochistan-heart-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/at-quetta-rally-zardari-calls-balochistan-heart-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"At Quetta rally, Zardari calls Balochistan \u2018heart of Pakistan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ex-president Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday called Balochistan the \u201cheart of Pakistan\u201d, lamenting that this view was not shared by Islamabad or the other provinces.<\/p>\n

He made the remarks while addressing a rally in Quetta to mark the party\u2019s 56th foundation day in an effort to improve its prospects in the province in the run up to the general elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cPakistan has everything. And Balochistan is the heart of Pakistan. Unfortunately, Islamabad does not see that Balochistan is the heart. The other provinces do not see it [either],\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we see that Balochistan is the heart of Pakistan. And it is very important to win over this heart. Without winning over the heart of Balochistan, we cannot fix Pakistan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zardari said that there was \u201cgrief\u201d prevalent in the province, which needed to be addressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is much grief [\u2026] in Balochistan and we need to address that. We tried to do it in our time but it was not enough,\u201d he said, adding that PPP wanted the people of Balochistan to take ownership of their land and resources.<\/p>\n

He said that he would ensure water was made accessible for the people of the province. \u201cPakistan becomes an export country when Balochistan has [access to] water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have formulas available on how to develop Pakistan, how to strengthen Balochistan, and how we have to serve you,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Commenting on his son PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the ex-president \u2014 in an apparent slip of the tongue \u2014 said, \u201cMy son, by becoming the youngest prime minister of Pakistan, raised Pakistan\u2019s honour and flag.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the previous tenure of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government, Bilawal had served<\/a> as the foreign minister, the youngest ever to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone knows him now. Some knew him because of his mother, some people knew him because of his father and some knew him because of his grandfather but today they know him because of his own identity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn all seasons and at all times, we have to support him [\u2026] we have to transfer what we know [\u2026] we want to make Bilawal the leader of the youth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will redefine Pakistan, we are not weak, you are not weak,\u201d he said as he wrapped up his speech.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ex-president Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday called Balochistan the \u201cheart of Pakistan\u201d, lamenting that this view was not shared by Islamabad or the other provinces. He made the remarks while addressing a rally in Quetta to mark the party\u2019s 56th foundation day in an effort to improve its prospects in the province in the run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30000,"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\/301720572aed48b.jpg?r=173125","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29999","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=29999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}