For PPP no option but to protest: Bilawal.

Byline: Ikram Junaidi

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Monday that the anti-government movement had just begun and 'many new things' would happen in the coming days.

Talking to reporters after meeting his father, former president Asif Ali Zardari, at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, he said all important issues of the country should be resolved in parliament.

He said his party believed in democracy and the supremacy of parliament. But, he added, injustices and the policy of political victimisation by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government had left no option for the opposition parties but to take to the streets.

He accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of weakening parliament, pressurising courts and strangulating the media. He also alleged that the government was using the National Accountability Bureau for victimisation of its political opponents.

Mr Bhutto-Zardari said all opposition parties had agreed on a single point that this 'incapable, incompetent and selected prime minister cannot run the country'. He said the...

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