KARACHI: Declaring that his party would foil all attempts to sell two national institutions, Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has asked the PML-N government to shelve the privatisation plan of Pakistan International Airlines and Pakistan Steel Mills.

The PPP chief said this while chairing a meeting here at Bilawal House on Wednesday. The meeting was also attended by president of the party’s Sindh chapter Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, general secretary Waqar Mehdi, former Senate chairman Mian Raza Rabbani, PPP-Karachi division president and provincial minister Saeed Ghani and Information Minister Nasir Shah.

“The PIA and PSM are owned by the people of Pakistan, who would not allow putting these national assets under the hammer in a dubious manner through a buy-one-get-one-free package,” he said, according to a statement. “It’s the height of dishonesty that a prime minister who has been running his private airline profitably and capturing the market and routes of the national flag carrier is adamant to sell the PIA.”

Published in Dawn, March 22nd, 2018