Differ­ence betwee­n stagin­g protes­ts and runnin­g a countr­y, says PPP chairm­anPakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari criticised the government and said that an economy cannot sustain itself on charity, Express News reported on Wednesday. Addressing the National Assembly, the PPP chairman focused on gas, health and agricultural reforms and rebuked the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led (PTI) federal government for not introducing adequate reforms. High-level PPP delegation to attend Begum Kulsoom’s funeralReferring to earlier sit-ins by PTI during Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) government, the PPP chairman said, “politics does not mean hurling abuses and a country’s issues are not solved magically”. “There’s a difference between staging protests and running a country.”Also speaking on the floor of the assembly, the PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif said that the government’s attempt to distance PPP and PML-N has failed once again. Twitter reacts as Imran applauds Bilawal’s ‘prime minister-select’ quipWhile Shehbaz extended support to the government’s tax reforms, he questioned as to why the government is not auditing delayed projects.

Source: The Express Tribune October 03, 2018 10:47 UTC