Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday took the PTI chief Imran Khan to task over his accusation that former president Asif Ali Zardari was plotting to kill him.
A day earlier, the ex-premier said that the PPP co-chair and ‘powerful agencies’ were plotting to take his life, saying the former had also paid money to a terrorist organisation to ‘get the job done’.
According to him, Zardari has unlimited money that he gets from the Sindh government and that he also uses it to buy loyalties of MPs during Senate’s elections.
“These statements increase threats to my father, my family and my part,” Bilawal said in a series of tweets today.
He further said that the party was ‘exploring legal response to the defamatory and dangerous accusation.
“We cannot let populist fiction dominate our discourse, poison our politics & damage our democracy,” the PPP chief said.
“Imran must realise every time his wife has a dream he cannot just come on TV and make accusations about people. Her dreams won’t stand up in court.”
According to Bilawal, the accusation that his family had any association to a terrorist organisation or that “we would employ them to cause him harm not only defies logic but also exposes us all to an increased threat.”
After terrorist outfits called myself & my party out by name in direct threats, Imran has now made false accusations against my father former president AZ. These statements increase threats to my father, my family and my part. We take them seriously given our history. 1/6
— BilawalBhuttoZardari (@BBhuttoZardari) January 28, 2023
Earlier today, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif termed PTI chairman’s remarks “nonsensical rhetoric” and an attempt to remain politically relevant.
On Friday (Jan 27), Imran said “Asif Ali Zardari is behind a Plan ‘C’ to kill me and he has given money to a terrorist organisation for the purpose.”
“The facilitators in this are the people belonging to powerful agencies [of the country],” he maintained.
He had also stated that the decision to target him had been planed ‘from three sides’, without explaining further.
“I have written out their names so that people may know. They want to get me out of the way using any means that they can,” he had claimed.
“When I earlier revealed the conspiracy hatched, during a party rally, they made a retreat from their plan.”
During his address, Imran had reiterated he would take to the streets when he is better and will not be ‘confined’ [by such threats].
