“Imran Khan will face a fate similar to that of General Musharraf,” Bilawal said in a speech before a PPP workers' convention in Multan on Thursday, relating that General (r) Musharraf had also accused the opposition of theft and corruption
Bilawal further lampooned the prime minister's award ceremony for the 'top performing ministries', saying that only his chamchas or lackeys had received awards. He suggested that it was a 'great injustice' that a certificate had not been awarded to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who is also from Multan.
“On one hand, the government boasts about a successful foreign policy and the recent Chinese visit but on the other, deprives the foreign minister of a certificate," he demurred.
Addressing an enthusiastic crowd, Bilawal called on the PPP workers to join the party's long march, scheduled to begin in Karachi on February 27 and travel on the Grand Trunk Road through Punjab to Islamabad, to help oust the incumbent government, which he termed a 'puppet regime.'
“The protest movement has to enter a new stage. If inflation, unemployment and poverty are here today so how can we wait till tomorrow?” he urged. "We will not let the ‘selected’ cause more harm to the people of Pakistan. We will tell the public about the facilitators of this incompetent government."
Last week, opposition members met in Lahore at the Model Town house of Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif to ramp up measures aiming to oust the incumbent administration from office.