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Politics
Abid Hussain

Bhutto about-turn: Behind the PPP plan to back Pakistan’s new government

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday announced that the PPP will join a government coalition without taking any cabinet positions [Sohail Shahzad/EPA]

Islamabad, Pakistan: On January 19, three weeks before Pakistan’s general elections, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, former foreign minister and chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), appeared for an interview on a private news channel.

Criticising the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) leadership – consisting of three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif – the PPP chief said that the PMLN’s policies had hurt the country’s economy.

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