KARACHI: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari returned to Karachi on Friday after a couple of days’ stay in Dubai.

Senator Rehman Malik said the PPP chairman had gone to Dubai to see Amin Fahim, a senior party leader, who is not well for the past few days. His return should serve as a shut-up call for opponents who misinterpreted his short stay in Dubai for political point scoring, he added.

“He is back and will live among his people,” Senator Malik told reporters outside the Bilawal House where Mr Bilawal had reached.

He is back and will live among his people, says Rehman Malik

“He met Amin Fahim and inquired about his health. The opponents must be ashamed of the propaganda they did over the past two days about Mr Bilawal’s short stay in Dubai.”

Mr Bilawal left for Dubai earlier this week hours after his father, the party’s co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari, made the same move. Their departure came a day after elder sister of Mr Zardari and key leader of the party Faryal Talpur flew to the United Arab Emirates.

Mr Malik did not say when Mr Zardari would return. But he used the opportunity to further clarify the statement of the party’s co-chairman in which he had warned the military leadership that if it did not stop “character assassination of his party”, he would expose the “misdeeds of many generals”.

“It was never meant to malign any institution. The army is our protector. Not only the PPP but the entire nation is standing by the armed forces. We salute their sacrifices and recognise their success in Zarb-i-Azb operation,” he said.

Published in Dawn, June 27th, 2015

On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play