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BILAWAL ADVOCATES FOR INSTITUTION IMPARTIALITY.

Bilawal is trying to get everyone to agree that institutions should be unbiased.

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Bilawal is trying to get everyone to agree that institutions should be unbiased.
The FM mentions CoD, expressing concern that in the absence of political consensus, the country is “doomed to suffer experiments and their aftermaths.”

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari addressing the National Assembly in Islamabad on April 26, 2023. PHOTO: TWITTER/ @NAofPakistan

On Sunday, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari warned that the future of the country will remain clouded until all political parties agreed that the military establishment and the judiciary must remain “impartial.”

In a tweet, Bilawal, who is also the co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), reflected on the Charter of Democracy (CoD) signed in 2006 by the two major political parties of the time, the PPP and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), promising not to side with undemocratic forces in an attempt to topple each other’s government.

In praising the pact, Bilawal said, “the CoD laid out a framework for political parties to abide by.”

The #CharterofDemocracy outlined guidelines for how political parties should operate. We are bound to suffer the results of experiments unless we can all agree that the government and courts must remain unbiased and that the Constitution is supreme.

He emphasized that the country would continue to be subject to experiments and their results “until and unless we all agree that the establishment and judiciary must remain impartial, and the Constitution must reign supreme.”

The PPP leader had previously stated last week that his party was not celebrating the arrest of any politicians nor did it back the outlawing of any political parties.

Nonetheless, he had previously stated during the same press conference that his opposition party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), should decide for itself whether it wished to operate as a political party or as a terrorist organization.

A day ago, Bilawal added, “the politics of one person [Imran] has created wedges between the judiciary, the media, and the people.” He was speaking at a different ceremony.

Bilawal maintained that Imran had turned to political terrorism, and he promised that the PPP would win the upcoming elections with the strength of the party’s votes.

The PPP leader claimed that, just like his party had done in Karachi, his supporters will use their votes to vanquish political terrorists all around the country.

After the ruling coalition accused the higher judiciary of helping the PTI leader, Bilawal responded by saying the justices had “turned the law into a joke.”

“The judiciary shouldn’t turn into [Imran’s] Tiger Force,” he continued.

The comments from the PPP leader come as the ruling coalition, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), plans to organize a sit-in outside the Supreme Court on Monday (tomorrow) to protest the judiciary’s excessive assistance of PTI Chairman Imran Khan.

An ECP petition seeking the Supreme Court to reconsider its order to hold elections for the Punjab Assembly on May 14 was heard at the same time as the protest sit-in. The period for holding elections set by the court will expire the day before the petition is heard.

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