Govt fighting Opp instead of battling with virus: Zardari.

LAHORE -- President of Pakistan Peoples Party-Parliamentarian Asif Ali Zardari has said that instead of battling the coronavirus the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government is fighting against the opposition.

Talking to PPP's Punjab chapter president Qamar Zaman Kaira by phone here on Wednesday, he said the rulers had become active to limit the constitutional and financial powers of the federating units.

He recalled that the PPP-P had assumed power in 2008 when the country was a victim of terrorism and in a state of disharmony and the party developed a consensus for launching an operation against terrorists in Swat and restored peace in the country. He said there was a shortage of grain in the country [in 2008] and people were fighting for wheat flour but the then government made the country self-sufficient in food and amended the Constitution with a national consensus to grant the provinces their rights.

The former president of Pakistan said the present rulers were again pushing the country towards the situation prevailing during Musharraf era, when wrong federal policies had put at risk the very federation.

He said the PPP-P gave Khyber Pakhtunwah its name and accorded status of a province to Gilgit-Baltistan, while the present rulers were spoiling the national consensus developed...

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