GILGIT: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is scheduled to arrive in Gilgit-Baltistan on a five-day visit from Nov 17 (Saturday).

According to PPP media office in Islamabad, Mr Bilawal will address a public gathering in Gilgit on Nov 18 (Sunday).

It will be his first visit to GB.

Meanwhile, talking to mediapersons here on Wednesday, PPP GB president Amjad Hussain Advocate alleged that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government in the region had distributed Rs15 million among 15 families in GB from the government exchequer.

He vowed to reveal names of the beneficiary families at the party’s rally on Nov 18.

He claimed that Chief Minister Hafeezur Rehman would be in the hot waters when his advisers and government officials would turn against him in the alleged corruption.

He vowed that the PPP would continue exposing corruption, bad governance and mismanagement of the regional government, adding the masses had already lost confidence in the government as it had badly to come up to their expectations. Replying a question, he said the GB chief minister had become more powerful after the PTI came into power in Islamabad.

Published in Dawn, November 15th, 2018