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Centre using NAP to target PPP: Bilawal

Says PML-N using anti-terror plan for political victimisation.

Islamabad: Pakistan People's Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday accused the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of subverting the anti-terror National Action Plan to target political rivals, particularly the PPP.
Addressing PPP workers on the eighth death anniversary of his mother and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto at Garhi Khuda Bux, Bilawal said the government was using anti-people policies to burden the common man.
"We support the National Action Plan but the incumbent government is using NAP as a tool for political victimisation," the PPP chairman said.
The PPP chairman questioned why the Model Town incident in 2014 was not labeled as terrorism. "Who ordered the police back then? Who was the police abetting?"
Bilawal also accused the PML-N of reviving the tradition of revenge-based politics in Pakistan by resorting to the "target killing of PPP workers".
The PPP chairman said his party had been a victim of target killing for years, pointing out the murders of Salman Taseer, Shahbaz Bhatti, Benazir Bhutto and the "judicial murder of Zulfikar Bhutto."
"Even in the 2013 elections we were targeted and that killing is still continuing."
"The history of PPP's target killing is very old. It all started with the formation of the PPP when its founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was killed," he said.
He also criticised the PML-N government for "auctioning off the Pakistan Steel Mills and PIA."
"We will not allow the financial murder of the poor people of Sindh," Bilawal said.
"Cut down on your luxurious spending and stop this economic assassination of the masses."
Earlier, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah lashed out at Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, saying "one man cannot overrule the Sindh Assembly resolution".
"We want democracy and a parliamentary system, where one man's decision will not govern all," the provincial chief minister said while addressing the gathering at Garhi Khuda Bux.
Shah said that the PPP has been tested several times and yet some elements were trying to weaken the party. "Chaudhry Nisar and his friends are trying to take control of Sindh, but we will not let anyone seize the province," he added.
Speaking about the Karachi operation, the chief minister said that peace in Karachi became a reality because of the people of Sindh, not due to the actions of any single institution.
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(With inputs from agencies)

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