All parties unanimously rejected federal budget: Bilawal.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan People's Party Chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari yesterday said his mother Benazir Bhutto - a two-time Prime Minister - was an extraordinary leader.

In a tweet on Benazir Bhutto's birthday, he said: 'My mother would have been 67 today. No words can do justice to her memory nor to our emotions. She was, is and forever will be 'Benazir'. One without equal.

Separately, he said that all the political parties had unanimously rejected the federal fiscal budget.

He vowed that the PPP will not allow 'our hospitals and healthcare facilities to be snatched at the hands of the federal government.'

Bilawal said that the federal government did not provide any assistance to the provincial governments on coronavirus and the federal budget was presented as if the coronavirus was not a problem and a thing of past.

'People had a thought that the federal government's budget would be in line with aims and plans to amicably deal with all the emerging challenges but it disappointed and since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, the federal government is...

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