{"id":13413,"date":"2025-07-12T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13413"},"modified":"2025-07-12T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:05:38","slug":"zulfikar-ali-bhutto-jr-to-launch-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13413","title":{"rendered":"Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr to launch political party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Junior, grandson of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, has announced plans to launch a new political party, pledging to address what he called the \u201creal needs of the people\u201d in Pakistan, Express News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on Saturday, Bhutto Jr. said the time had come to expand the political vision of his grandfather. \u201cAfter roti, kapra aur makaan, the people now need electricity, gas, and water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes just months after Bhutto Jr confirmed in March his decision to formally enter politics. At the time, he had expressed an intention to begin his political journey through the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Shaheed Bhutto group \u2014 a faction founded by his father in opposition to the mainstream PPP leadership.<\/p>\n<p>During Saturday\u2019s press conference, Bhutto Jr levelled strong criticism at President Asif Ali Zardari, accusing him of co-opting the iconic slogan \u201cJeay Bhutto\u201d to advance corruption rather than uphold the Bhutto family\u2019s legacy. \u201cThis slogan was meant to serve the people, not to enable looting in their name,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The press event centred on the issue of forced evictions of farmers, particularly in Punjab, where Bhutto Jr alleged that corporate farming initiatives were displacing local communities. \u201cCorporate farming is nothing but a land grab operation targeting the livelihoods of poor farmers,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned the silence of parties that once claimed to speak for farmers, including the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, and others. \u201cWhere are those parties now, when the farmers need them the most?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Describing Punjab\u2019s farmers as the \u201cbackbone of Pakistan\u2019s economy,\u201d the son of slain politician Mir Murtaza Bhutto, warned against what he termed the systemic dispossession of rural communities. \u201cTaking land away from the people who feed this country is unacceptable,\u201d he said. \u201cCorporate farming is not development \u2014 it\u2019s dispossession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hinting at a broader mobilisation, he warned that if farmers in Sindh begin to raise their voices as their counterparts in Punjab have, he would not hesitate to call for a long march on Islamabad. While no formal timeline for the party\u2019s launch was announced, Bhutto Jr said consultations with grassroots movements and progressive groups were already underway.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Junior, grandson of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, has announced plans to launch a new political party, pledging to address what he called the \u201creal needs of the people\u201d in Pakistan, Express News reported. Speaking at a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on Saturday, Bhutto Jr. said the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}