QUETTA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said
that Balochistan lawyers bravely resisted dictatorship, and today, Pakistan’s
judicial system needs reforms.
Addressing the Balochistan High Court Bar on Tuesday, Bilawal Bhutto
expressed his gratitude to the High Court Bar Association, District Bar, and
PLF, saying, “I have been allowed to speak to the lawyers of Balochistan once
again. Those who claim to be champions of lawyers today know nothing about
my connection with lawyers. Don’t think I come from Lahore or Islamabad – I
am one of you.”
He further said, “We have been fighting a struggle for generations. This was
never a revolution of guns; nothing has happened in a day or a year.”
Bilawal Bhutto stated that the restoration of the constitution was the aim of
Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s political struggle. Benazir Bhutto fought for the
restoration of the constitution for 30 years, he added.
“We restored the 1973 constitution through the Charter of Democracy. Shaheed
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged, and the workers of my party and others were
targeted,” he maintained.
The former foreign minister said, “Today, the PTI knows more about Shaheed
Benazir Bhutto’s struggle than I do. You have seen the era of PML-N, during
which I and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto were made to sit outside the jail. My father
was imprisoned for 12 and a half years without any charges. He was imprisoned
at first on Nawaz Sharif’s will and then on late General Pervez Musharraf’s
will.”
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said, “Iftikhar Chaudhry was acquitted of all cases in the
presence of Nawaz Sharif. I am the grandson of the Quaid-e-Awam, the son of
BB and the President. I am just like you lawyers; everything has happened to me
too.”
Bilawal Bhutto said, “I have nothing to do with the judicial battle in
Islamabad.”