As the ruling of the Supreme Court bench on delaying elections in Punjab is well in the debate, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari Wednesday accused “individuals” in the judiciary of “doing politics”.
Speaking at a ceremony for laying the foundation stone of the first “health city” in Gambat, Sindh the foreign minister accused members of the judiciary of taking sides, saying: “These institutions have become puppets.”
Speaking about the ongoing conundrum regarding the polls in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), he alleged: “The same plan through which the “selected” was imposed in 2018 is being put into play even today. An unworthy and incompetent leader was imposed on us back then and these judges could not see.”
A day earlier, in a major development and apparent victory for the former ruling party, the top court declared the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision on the Punjab and KP election null and void, ordering to hold snap polls.
The decision has been slammed by the incumbent ruling alliance Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). The PPP chairman too expressed his displeasure with the decision and said that the fight for “Lahore’s throne will sink Pakistan”.
“We have to save this system,” he said, adding that “some people” in the institution “have become stubborn and are playing politics”.
He slammed the judiciary and said that the institution had failed to do its duty at various points in Pakistan’s history, including the hanging of his grandfather Zulfiqar Bhutto.
“We do not believe that there is any institution of justice in this country,” Bilawal said.
“Under Bhutto’s leadership, Pakistan had become a leader of the Muslim Ummah. However, because of these courts, the Qauid-e-Awam was hanged. They were not ashamed. No judge has heard the case of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to date.”
