KOHAT: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday said that aim of his life was to complete the incomplete mission of his late mother, Benazir Bhutto, who wanted to help the downtrodden of the country.

In a telephonic address to the workers and local leaders at Sher Kot on Hangu road and Orakzai subdivision, Bilawal pledged that top priority of his party, if voted to power, would be to check unemployment among youth and educated women to keep them away from drugs and crimes and keep their kitchen running.

He said they would give loans and stipends to the women to start their own businesses. He said he would start free travel and treatment facilities for people above 60 years of age and upgrade existing and construct new maternity hospitals to save the lives of women and babies in the remote areas.

If voted to power, he said the PPP would also launch food and health cards for providing affordable and cheap assistance to the poor people and expand the Benazir Income Support Programme to bring in the net those who were not included in the programme in the past.

Bilawal vowed to provide clean drinking water throughout the country, saying the problem of dams had become every disputed which had caused immense loadshedding and was turning agriculture land barren.

After coming to government, he said the PPP would try to solve the issues pertaining to construction of dams to store water. He said development of country was not possible without energy which was essential for smooth running of industry for boosting exports.

Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2018