Bilawal Bhutto

President PPP Balochistan Sadiq Umrani addresses a press conference in Islamabad. – Photo by Online/File QUETTA: Mir Sadiq Umrani has tendered resignation from the slot of president Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Balochistan in the aftermath of defeat in recently held historic general elections. “I have decided to quit the post following defeat in polls,” Umrani told Dawn.com on Tuesday. He said he has dispatched the resignation to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Umrani claimed elections...Read Full Story

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.—File Photo ISLAMABAD: In order to match the election campaign of other mainstream political parties, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari started addressing public meetings via video link on Sunday. The PPP chairman left for Dubai early this week and is still there because of security concerns. The caretaker government is reported to have advised him not to interact with public because he can be a target of terrorists who are...Read Full Story

Karachi: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has sought report from provincial leadership over humiliating defeat in general elections. Informed sources said President Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto have also summoned meeting of leaderships of the four provinces in which reasons of the defeat would be discussed, and a decision on whether or not to accept poll results would be taken. (Online)Read Full Story

Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has left on a foreign trip and will not be present in the country when it goes to polls on May 11, according to a media report. Bilawal, 24, will not address any rallies or meetings ahead of the general election due to threats to his life, sources in the PPP were quoted as saying in the report on the website of the Dawn newspaper. Senior PPP leader Taj Haider confirmed that consensus had been reached within the party and Bilawal had been...Read Full Story

The chief of the PPP-Parliamentarians, Makhdoom Amin Fahim.—File Photo by Reuters. KARACHI: The chief of the PPP-Parliamentarians, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, said on Thursday that spreading fear among voters to keep them from participating in election was tantamount to pre-poll rigging which would be detrimental to Pakistan. He said that putting the election off or rejecting its results would mean derailing democracy, since welfare of the country called for participation of all parties in the...Read Full Story