PPP chairman plans to visit US in next few days

Published July 5, 2021
Bilawal said in a statement said that July 5 would always be remembered as the black day in Pakistan’s history. — DawnNewsTV/File
Bilawal said in a statement said that July 5 would always be remembered as the black day in Pakistan’s history. — DawnNewsTV/File

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has a plan to visit the United States in the next few days, sources in the party told Dawn on Sunday.

“You can say it is a private or an academic visit,” said a senior PPP office-bearer. He said Mr Bhutto-Zardari would be leaving for the US after July 10.

PPP’s information secretary and MNA Shazia Marri in a statement said the government people were “worried” over the PPP chairman’s visit to the US.

“The puppet rulers are worried about chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s visit to the US and Fawad Chaudhry, Shahbaz Gul and Farrukh Habib-like dwarf spokesmen are worried that their leader Imran Khan cannot go to the US without diplomatic immunity because pending cases in the courts of the US are his destiny,” Ms Marri said.

Meanwhile, Mr Bhutto-Zardari in a statement said that July 5 would always be remembered as the black day in Pakistan’s history.

“The military coup that toppled the first democratically-elected people’s government, led by Prime Minister Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, by a tin-pot dictator General Zia, marked the vicious assault on the democratic aspirations of the people of Pakistan,” he said.

Published in Dawn, July 5th, 2021

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