A day after meeting the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman in Islamabad, Senator Faisal Vawda heaped praise on Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, calling him “untainted and shrewd politician”.
Vawda, speaking on Geo News programme “Capital Talk” on Tuesday, showered praise on Bilawal, saying that the PPP chairman rendered sacrifices for democracy in the country.
“He is untainted politician. He is young and 36 years old,” he said, calling the PPP chief a “shrewd” politician. Vawda said the PPP chief did not become young as a result of “filler or some surgery”.
The senator said only the new faces could improve the country’s situation and lashed out at the incumbent coalition government led by PML-N, calling it a setup of “political bodies”.
He said the country needs “new faces” to deal with prevailing challenges. “[…] if [PTI founder] Imran Khan is not acceptable then the old faces are not as well.”
His comments came a day after he held a separate meeting with the PPP chief in Islamabad.
During the meeting, the politicians discussed the current political situation and the crisis arising from the politics of hatred and division.
Commenting on the embattled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the firebrand politician alleged that party founder Imran Khan was behind bars due to his wife Bushra Bibi.
He claimed that the PTI founder’s wife “fled the D-Chowk” during the party’s “final call” protest, aiming to release Khan who has been incarcerated for more than one year.
The firebrand politician criticised Bushra and KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, saying that they didn’t even bother to meet Khan at Adiala Jail.
Slamming CM Gandapur’s role in the PTI’s protests, the senator said that the country could not bear the consequences of provincialism. The state was neither supporting nor opposing any individual or party, he added.
He blamed the former ruling for committing act like “terrorists”, pointing towards the PTI’s “do-or-die” protest which saw fierce clashes between the party workers and the law enforcers last week.
“All of us entered a blind alley,” said Vawda, stressing the parties to bring down political temperature and avoid indulging in violence.
Prior to this statement, the former PTI leader had claimed that a narrative was being built to declare the former premier “insane”.
He made the statement in response to Qasim Khan Suri’s post on X, claiming that the jailed ex-PM was being given some “poisonous substance” to alter his mental state.
Vawda had also predicted a ban on the Imran Khan-founded party following the three-day chaotic protests in the federal capital.
