Bilawal recalls kidnapping attempt from when Benazir was PM

Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that when he was one year old, an attempt was made to kidnap him from the Prime Minister's House while his mother, the late Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, was the Premier of the country. 

Speaking in the National Assembly session on Thursday (today), Chairman PPP said, “I have been witnessing terrorism since childhood. I was the son of the Prime Minister. When I was one year old, an attempt was made to kidnap me from the Prime Minister's House.”

He said that following the unsuccessful kidnapping attempt, his mother kept him in London under protection.

He also spoke about terrorism, stating that terrorism has damaged both Pakistan and the PPP. “Benazir Bhutto was martyred in a terrorist incident,” he added.

He asserted that the country has lost all its success against terrorism, adding that at this moment, Pakistan is going through a time more dangerous than any in the past.

“Terrorists have no ideology, no politics. Religious militants have no religion. Whether it is religious extremism or Baloch insurgents, their sole purpose is to spread fear, shed blood, and derail Pakistan’s progress,” Bilawal stated.

Recalling the Army Public School (APS) tragedy, he highlighted how all political parties had set aside their differences to implement the National Action Plan (NAP), which had significantly weakened terrorist networks in the past. “But unfortunately, we have lost the gains we made against terrorism. The flames of militancy have reignited, and we are facing a more dangerous period than before,” he stressed. 

Bilawal said that Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif created the first NAP to combat terrorism, so there is no reason why incumbent PM Shehbaz Sharif cannot formulate the second one.