'Reciprocal reconciliation' needed to resolve conflicts.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday said that most of the challenges facing the country could be resolved through reciprocal reconciliation - the philosophy of his late mother Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.

He was addressing party loyalists at a gathering held to commemorate the 66th birthday of former prime minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.

"Problems and difficulties facing our country and society can be overcome if the philosophy of Benazir Bhutto is applied in letter and spirit. It is the need of the hour that issues and conflicts should be resolved through reciprocal reconciliation," he said.

Bilawal assailed Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government for putting leading opposition figures, including former president Asif Ali Zardari, behind bars.

"We reject this puppet government. We reject media censorship. We reject controlled democracy. This failed government has destroyed the country's economy," he said.

The PPP chief warned Imran Khan to be prepared for facing the same actions as he now took against opposition leaders.

"Do exactly as much as you can endure. You should pray that my father Asif Ali Zardari comes to power next because only he does not exact political revenge. You exactly know what you will face if the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) happens to come to power. Also remember, you'll be stoned if Maulana [Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman] comes into power. Khan sahib, you are a 70-year-old. I am a 30-year-old young man," he said.

The PPP chairman said before coming into power, Imran Khan used to say he would make the opposition cry. "However, I happily bade farewell to my aged father when he was taken to jail. My father was also smiling at that time. Only my younger sister, Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, was tearful. Khan sahib, I'll make you pay for my sister's tears," Bilawal said.

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