PPP will not allow govt to make CPEC controversial: Bilawal.

Muzaffarabad -- Pakistan People's Party Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday cast doubt on the federal government's ability to legislate on the army chief's extension within the six-month time frame granted by the Supreme Court.

Addressing a public rally in Muzaffarabad, Bilawal questioned how the government would be able to legislate on such an important matter when it was not able to pass any law during its first year in power.

'The entire government, its ministers and the prime minister could not draft a single notification in three months,' the PPP chairperson said during his speech at his party's 52nd Youm-e-Tasees.

'Now the matter of the army chief's extension will be brought to the parliament. The people who were not able to get even a single law passed during their one year ... how will they be able to create consensus on such an important piece of legislation within six months?' he asked.

Furthermore, Bilawal assailed the government on a variety of issues, ranging from inflation to targeting of opposition parties and suppression of media.

Bilawal also credited his father and former president Asif Ali Zardari for initiating the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, and warned the government that his party would not allow them to make the multi-billion project 'controversial'.

Bilawal said, 'We are supposed to get rid of PTI government which is selected and has failed miserably...