'Bhutto is alive but poor in Sindh are dying of poverty', Firdous takes jibe at Bilawal.

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday said that according to the ideology of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), founder of the party Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is alive although poor masses in Sindh are dying of poverty, malnutrition and dog bites.

While addressing the oath taking ceremony of Hafizabad Press Club's newly-elected leadership, the PM's aide criticised the PPP for deposed corrupt political leadership which,she said, was making false narrative to mislead the nation.

'They only feel pain of poor masses when they are not in power. For them, common people means their dear ones and close aides. But, the real matter of concern is the looted money they have plundered from this country,' said Dr Firdous in response to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari's remarks defining the vision of the PPP founder at the workers' convention in Quetta earlier in the day.

Targeting the top leadership of the opposition party, she said: 'A politically immature party leader [Bilawal] was elaborating the political philosophy of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Quetta, claiming himself as Bhutto's successor.'

The PM's aide added: 'He [Bilawal] should realise that Larkana, the city of late Zulfikar Bhutto, has failed to provide medical relief to dog bite victims and the people of Thar are dying due to poor nutrition. If the Bhutto's ideology was alive then the plunderers of public money would have been...