PPP chairm­an vows to protec­t 18th amendm­entPESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday expressed his concerns over a “conspiracy being hatched against the country’s parliamentary system” and vowed to protect the 18 Constitutional Amendment, which was promulgated during his party’s last tenure. “A dictator had overthrown a democratically-elected government through heinous designs.”Bilawal said his mother, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, had struggled for 30 years to restore the 1973 Constitution to its original shape. “No matter how weak the current system may be, it is still a democratic system,” he said. “However, we have paid a high price for Imran Khan to become the ‘selected prime minister’. “If both the government and the opposition play the role of the opposition, who will rule the country?”Read full story

Source: The Express Tribune July 05, 2019 14:48 UTC