Bilawal says no-trust motion can be moved against PM, NA speaker.

LARKANA -- Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has hinted at the possibility of ousting the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government through no-confidence motion and said all member parties of Pakistan Democratic Movement will be convinced to use this option and reach consensus on the issue.

Bilawal said at an inauguration ceremony for newly-established Sindh Industrial Trading Estate near Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University on Airport Road in Arija town near here on Friday that the no-confidence move could be tabled against the 'selected' prime minister and speaker.

He said that his party had launched movement against the PTI government from the PDM platform and vowed to send the 'inept and incompetent' government packing through constitutional, democratic and legal options.

He said that it was inevitable for 'puppets' to quit in favour of a pro-people government. 'Our future is bright. We have potential to be a true peoples' representative government,' he said.

He criticised PTI government's policies for industrialists and business community and claimed that the federal government used danda (stick) and treated them like criminals while recovering taxes. In contrast, he said, PPP did not believe in strong-arm tactics for tax collection nor did it treat the business community as criminals. 'We lend support to industrialists and businessmen and take care of the poor labourers as well,' he said.

Inaugurates industrial estate near Larkana

He said that when all democratic forces decided to deal decisive blow, the puppets would go home and peoples' representatives would replace them. 'We need peoples' representatives and not puppets,' he said.

'We don't see 10 million jobs and five million houses for people as promised by the PTI leaders before election,' he said and referred to recently inaugurated labour houses in Sukkur by Sindh government.

He said that PPP was a big obstacle for the prime minister. PPP leadership was targeted through media and National Accountability Bureau but 'we know how to fight against such conspiracies and we know how to drive out undemocratic regimes'.

Bilawal said that Sindh chief minister had raised the issues of the province's right on gas, 18th Amendment, National Finance Commission Award and islands at all forums.

He said that this industrial estate had a strategic location as it happened to be near the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor's route passing through Ratodero-Khuzdar. It...

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