'Happy that MQM is getting another ministry,' says Bilawal

E-Paper | June 14, 2026

Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday welcomed the government's decision to give the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) another ministry.

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday decided to give another ministry to MQM after a meeting with Sindh Governor Imran Ismail and MQM leaders. Presently, the MQM has two federal ministries — law and information technology.

According to the PM Office, the prime minister also decided to announce development packages for Karachi and Hyderabad.

Speaking to the media before the National Assembly session, Bilawal said: "It is a matter of happiness for me that someone from my province is getting a ministry."

"I hope that all the promises Imran Khan has made to the country will be fulfilled. At this point, none of the promises the prime minister has made have come true. Imran Khan had promised a desalination plant for Karachi. The Sindh government is ready to cooperate in the matter, but the prime minister has backed out," he said, while criticising the PTI government.

"Imran Khan promised a Karachi Package, but the funds allocated in there are not enough. The way the funds are being given is also illegal. Like the rest of the country, Sindh has also been cheated [by the PM]," the PPP chairperson alleged.

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Nadir Guramani is a journalist and anchorperson for Dawn News (TV) with 17 years of experience. His reporting covers parliamentary affairs, foreign policy, politics, climate change, and human rights. He can be found on X at @nguramani.

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Ali

Jun 19, 2019 12:13pm

Thief always blame others

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Ali

Jun 19, 2019 12:14pm

PM doesn’t need money launderers cooperation

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Sameer

Jun 19, 2019 12:17pm

IK is just a guy who talks tall.

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Sammy

Jun 19, 2019 12:23pm

50 years of looting, Oppression and africa-like conditions in Sindh by his party and yet, 10 month long PM is the one who is cheating Sindh...do these people forget they have to return to their maker? Leave the man alone and let him do his job

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md Riyad hasan

Jun 19, 2019 12:54pm

nicce nice

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Safder Ali

Jun 19, 2019 12:55pm

Bilawal Zardari pledged that PPP will install desalination plants to make sea water usable in number of public gathering in Karachi. How many of them installed. Fulfill your promises than ask IK for his.

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Uzair

Jun 19, 2019 12:59pm

Mr. Zardari you might not have been in control before, but it is impossible to take you seriously when you act like your party was born yesterday and had never formed a government before.

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Sajjad Memon

Jun 19, 2019 01:09pm

Bilawal Zardari should have some shame and look into ppp poor performance in sindh. PPP put sindh into reverse direction and it continues. Their os height of nepotism, corruption and ill governance in sindh and yet he claims its Federal government responsible for it.

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M. Saeed

Jun 19, 2019 01:18pm

At least there is something that Bhutto Zardari welcomed of the government.

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Tariq Shah

Jun 19, 2019 01:19pm

PTI and MQM going along in the government is a marriage of convenience and coercion at the same time.

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Asad

Jun 19, 2019 01:31pm

PPP's own performance should be evaluated. Shahra e Faisal's revamping is a disaster, all the other new roads have already developed potholes. University Road is still suffering from severe congestion. PPP decided to build the orange line when the green line project started, the green line is almost there even though its progress has been slowed down by PPP's bureaucracy while I don't see the much smaller orange line (only 2 KM long) anywhere .. only the road has been left dug up for 4 years now. PPP claims its a victim, however, the people of Pakistan, Sindh and specially Karachi are the biggest victims of its existence.

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James

Jun 19, 2019 01:50pm

Can someone convey this to PPP and Bilawal that just being a son does not bake you the leader. No one takes him seriously and sooner it is understood the better.

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Javed

Jun 19, 2019 01:55pm

If Sindh is being treated the ‘same’ as the rest of the country, then why are you complaining.

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Badar janjua

Jun 19, 2019 01:55pm

Look on your right hand side who is sitting ? Is Sindh or Karachi look like Manhattan ? Bilawal is not a common man he has inherited every thing which actually belongs to poor public. So don’t bother what he says !!!!

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BAXAR

Jun 19, 2019 02:00pm

@Sameer, "IK is just a guy who talks tall." The other make tall palaces....abroad.

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Ali S

Jun 19, 2019 02:03pm

IK would have to make a concerted effort to plunder and ravage Pakistan for 30 years nonstop to reach close to the apocalyptic conditions that PPP have created in their interior Sindh stronghold.

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NACParis

Jun 19, 2019 02:09pm

Bilawal is not a politician but has been installed by corrupts including his family to fool the public. If he wants to be an honest leader than he should fight against corruption, have some shame and force the looters to bring back the loots instead of trying to protect them.

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G H A L I B J E E E

Jun 19, 2019 02:22pm

Mr. BBZ, even if your family returns a fraction of the Wealth Your family and Party has looted from this country, our financial problems will be solved

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Ijaz

Jun 19, 2019 02:26pm

So how many in the cabinet now? I seem to remember Imran promising a small cabinet of 25 or so!

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Syed Hussain Akbari

Jun 19, 2019 02:41pm

Sindh has been and is being cheated mainly and only by Peoples Party. They have deceived all the citizens of Sindh. Canadad

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Junaid Imran Mahmood

Jun 19, 2019 03:23pm

@Sameer, 50 years or 10 months you tell me who talks. PPP have cheated Sindh. May be they deserve it after voting for PPP for 50 years.

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Dr.Sadaf

Jun 19, 2019 03:24pm

@Sammy, if they leave him alone and let him work their politics and nuisance value will be finished.

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Sak99

Jun 19, 2019 03:33pm

Mr. Bilawal have your party done anything for people of Sindh particularly downtrodden segments of the society for past several decades.

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arif

Jun 19, 2019 04:07pm

It is surprise for Sindh people that PPP is blaming to PTI instead of themselves. Gold and money found from Maqbara in the house of Sindh Assembly speaker. There is no proper hospital in Sindh and PPP is taking money in the name. All Sindh is destroyed by PPP . We need change of government in Sindh. We don't care it is PTI or PMN. We need people who work for the province.

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Adnan Mazher Khan

Jun 19, 2019 04:11pm

PM is the last hope for Pakistan. At least in our lifetime.

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LAHORI KID

Jun 19, 2019 04:33pm

What, Bilawal didn’t ask for Zardari to be present and to witness his speech ?

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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad

Jun 19, 2019 05:23pm

What else can he say to mark his presence in the political arena, stay afloat, rally his supporters, look busy, prove that he is still in-charge, get counted and remain in the media limelight?

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Zak

Jun 19, 2019 05:26pm

@Sameer, That's because IK is tall in honesty and intention.

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AZulfi

Jun 19, 2019 06:03pm

Focus on providing good governance in Sindh. It is primarily your responsibility now. Thanks to your party, education and health have become provincial subjects now! We saw all the cheating that went on in the recent board exams in Sindh. How can anyone then talk about education standard or merit? Don't keep looking for excuses or keep blaming the federal government for your party's abject performance in Sindh over the past more than a decade..

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Qureshi SQ

Jun 19, 2019 06:08pm

defeat in cricket world cup is example of corruptionin cricket defeat is clear example of mismanagement in gov. circles in Pak Ahmed

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SHAHID SATTAR

Jun 19, 2019 06:45pm

It is only the birth right of the PPP to cheat and loot and plunder the urban areas of Sindh, and nobody is permitted to even raise a voice or protest against the same. We can blackmail any one who dares deny us that loot.

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Behram Sodawala

Jun 19, 2019 07:15pm

Bilawal, it should not be your concern, for you all it matters is to save your Father & Aunt, kindly ask them to generously deposit all the stolen money back to the Govt. Treasury.

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Asif

Jun 19, 2019 07:44pm

Karachi and Hyderabad need to be liberated from Sindh as separate province, these PPP hoodlums win vote from interior Sindh and they should serve their voter base.

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FreeThinker

Jun 19, 2019 07:46pm

Can't this Zardari shut up! He is not a Bhutto according to the bloodline. Support Pakistan out of it's current problems.

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Texan

Jun 19, 2019 07:52pm

Why does he need to talk and remind everyone the things that they were unable to do during their govt??

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Jimmy

Jun 19, 2019 08:03pm

Beware people. It is evident that Bilawal's mantra is divide and rule.

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Saaqib Mahmood

Jun 19, 2019 08:32pm

The PPP has done a lot for its voters from the rural areas of Sindh. They've ensured that even those Sindhis who are not very deserving get jobs and benefits even in the urban areas of the province. The real predicament of the urban areas like Karachi and Hyderabad is the tug-of-war that is always going on between the PPP and the MQM. So the people of the urban areas of Sindh, across linguistic and ethnic affiliations, should either press ahead for a separate province or else just vote for the PPP candidates from amongst them instead of supporting the not-so-beneficial MQM, a party that the Pakistani establishment created and promoted for some time but which cannot otherwise make any significant impact in the greater provincial or country-wide politics.

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Uzay Yazdani

Jun 19, 2019 08:38pm

He is correct. The people of Sindh have been cheated, but not the greedy politicians.

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charlie

Jun 19, 2019 08:39pm

Look who is talking. Karachi is part of Sindh, and Karachi's development budget should be allocated from Sindh's PSPD. Where are those funds and how much money was allocated by Sindh govt to Karachi's development in the last 11 years. What mega projects for Karachi were completed in this time frame.

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Jigar

Jun 19, 2019 09:00pm

No need for provinces. Empower local bodies, councils and we will save alot of money and the money will go to the people who need it the most.

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Hameed

Jun 19, 2019 09:14pm

He is a liar and a cheater.

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khan

Jun 19, 2019 09:44pm

Absolutely shameless comments, as if his father Zardari is clean.

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Rajeev Saxena

Jun 19, 2019 09:47pm

Muhajirs need their own nation carved out of Pakistan. They created Pakistan but got only discrimination, violence and humiliation in return.

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Ajmal

Jun 19, 2019 10:01pm

extrem selfish personality. Blame others and do nothing.Bilawal Zardari you are most responsible person for Sindh and do something,get out from your palace and work for the poor people. Show them that you learned from Oxford, and forget just for awhile that you have lot of money and a feudal lord.

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AZAM AKBAR

Jun 19, 2019 10:06pm

Mr. Bilawal Zardari, Strange, that you still not realise that you don't have, dignity, respect, capability, ability, etc., and always give script-written-speeches which are laughable.

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farzee

Jun 19, 2019 10:13pm

@Sajjad Memon, How do you expect him to have shame being a Zardari?

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N Abidi

Jun 19, 2019 10:18pm

Bilwal has no connections with Pakistani youth even his own age. He has done nothing, to earn even 1 rupee. Bilwal do you know know what Pakistan girl and boy goes through in their life ,by the time they reach the age of 31 yrs?

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Jun 19, 2019 10:23pm

PPP has always cheated Karachi

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Alam Khan USA

Jun 19, 2019 10:27pm

Why to talk about MQM ministry, you are looting Sindh since last thirty years !

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M. Afzal Riaz, MD

Jun 19, 2019 11:51pm

I have not seen a single good statement from Bilawal. Just nonsense talk He is no leader- just inherited.

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Shahzad

Jun 20, 2019 01:04am

Bilawal Zardari has admitted his defeat. He has used the expression "my province". He has publicly acknowledged that People's Party is confined to Sindh. He also knows that he can't trust Maryam Safdar who is soon going to skipper an abandoned ship

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Wazir

Jun 20, 2019 01:15am

Bilawal, check your own score before you point fingers at others...Your family has ransacked the nation...The current economic mess is because of your family & NS...

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Wazir

Jun 20, 2019 01:16am

@Qureshi SQ, Send Bilawal to play with Maryam both of them will play well...They are doing it in the nights....

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Salman Tariq

Jun 20, 2019 01:17am

It would have been more entertaining if Bilawal had become Chairman 10 years ago, while he was still a teenager.

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Laila

Jun 20, 2019 04:16pm

Bilawal go away. As long as you keep your nose out of politics to which your only claim is your maternal name and legacy, we will be fine. Take Zardari, Sharifs and firdausashiq Awan, Musharraf with you. Let our PM work and do his job. You guys have bled the country dry and brought it no nowhere. Let IK work.

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