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Islamabad [Pakistan]Sept 3 (ANI): Foreign Minister and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari slams Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) after satellite images of Pakistan floods are released Chairman Imran Khan held a “concert” in this catastrophic situation.
Sharing satellite images of the floods on Twitter, Bilawal said: “Pakistan is facing the biggest disaster in our history. 1/3 of our country [is] Underwater! 1/7 Citizen [are] Affected, 35 million people! [While] The former prime minister is giving concerts in KP and Punjab. “
He further said that the chief ministers of both Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were busy organizing music events for PTI rather than helping flood victims.
“Shameful, pehaly insan bano, phir siyasatdan bano! (Be a good person first, then a politician),” he advised the former prime minister.
Speaking at a public rally in the Pakistani city of Gujarat earlier in the day, Imran Khan warned the incumbent government if the “political victimization” against his party continued, the Express Tribune reported. The Freedom Movement will march on Islamabad.
“I warn you [PML-N-led coalition government] Today, if you keep doing this, our justice movement will come to Islamabad [political victimisation] You will have nowhere to hide,” he said.
He slammed the government for allegedly using force against PTI leader Shahbaz Gill, saying he was stripped naked and tortured.
When the PTI came to power, Khan had said the opposition’s campaign against the government was based on rising inflation. However, inflation has now reached record levels during their own tenures, according to the Express Tribune.
“Bilawal came to Islamabad and said Imran Khan ki kanpen tangengi…For God’s sake, improve your Urdu first,” he said, adding that the entire opposition at the time used to say the government has become a slave to the International Monetary Fund.
This year’s monsoon is already the country’s wettest since records began in 1961, and the season is still a month away, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department.
At least 1,186 people have died from rains and floods since June 14, Geo News said, citing a Sept. 1 statement from the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA).
In the past 24 hours, 12 people were reported dead in Sindh, four in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and three in Balochistan. The dead included nine children. Disaster management said 256 people were injured in flood-related incidents across the country.
Flash floods have severely affected 80 areas of the country, according to the Express Tribune.
Since June 14, the NDMA reported at least 256 deaths in Balochistan, 268 in KP, 188 in Punjab and 22 in Gilgit-Baltistan. (ANI)
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