'I will take oath as minister tomorrow', Bilawal tells presser

Karachi: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari announced Tuesday that he would take oath as a federal minister tomorrow and is likely to be appointed as the foreign minister.

After a meeting of the PPP's Central Executive Committee (CEC), he announed the decsion at a press conference.

Bilawal said former prime minister Imran Khan's "foreign conspiracy" narrative hurt Pakistan's image on international forums, adding the PTI chairman's "conspiracies" would continue as he keeps shifting his targets from the judiciary to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

He said Khan violated the Constitution and considered it a "piece of paper", while ex-deputy speaker Qasim Suri and President Arif Alvi were involved in the "conspiracy" with him as well.

The PPP stalwart demanded that the events that had transpired on the night before the vote on the no-confidence motion against the then-prime minister should be investigated.

He said Imran Khan's politics was based on lies and propaganda, adding the former premier was running a campaign 'why didn't you save me'. 

Bilawal blamed Khan for making "all the institutions of Pakistan controversial" and called on them to keep working within their constitutional parameters.

Regarding his meeting with the PML-N supremo, Bilawal said Nawaz had invited him to iftar, where they discussed the "Charter of Democracy (CoD) II" and not "the handing of portfolios".

"Imran Khan does not believe in parliament and democracy, and for the last four years he has been trying to turn every institution in Pakistan into a tiger force," the PPP leader said.

Bilawa said for the last three-and-a-half years, a system had been imposed on us which has deprived every province of its rights because the NFC award was not given in that period without complying with the 18th amendment which harmed every province of Pakistan.