LAHORE: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday contacted the leaders of other opposition parties and agreed to hold a multi-party conference next week.

Bhutto-Zardari telephoned PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and National Watan Party head Aftab Sherpao and agreed to call a multi-party conference next week on the challenges the country was facing today.

They agreed to reject anti-people budget. They said the government had destroyed the country’s economy and its policy was confused on coronavirus. They also discussed the government’s failure to curb the spread of Covid-19. Both agreed not to let the PTI government attack the Constitution.

Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari also inquired after Shahbaz and his elder brother, Nawaz Sharif. Shahbaz has been isolating at home since he contracted Covid about two weeks ago.

National Assembly Opposition Leader Shahbaz Sharif also inquired after PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and expressed heartfelt wishes for him.

Meanwhile PML-N Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb said confused Imran Khan helped the nation’s sugar thief elope from the country in his plane.

She said the people of Pakistan had known that they were being robbed by both hands by this Imran-led government.

“The nation knows that they are being robbed by government dacoits through sugar, electricity, gas and food. False propaganda cannot mislead and fool the nation anymore,” she said.

Published in Dawn, June 27th, 2020