Election 2024: Asifa Bhutto promises support programmes for youth, farmers and labourers

LARKANA: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s daughter Asifa Bhutto on Monday promised support programmes for the youth, farmers and labourers if the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is voted to power.

Addressing an election rally in the traiditonal stronghold of the PPP in Larkana, the daughter of former president Asif Ali Zardari highlighted her party’s track record of providing free healthcare services in Sindh, distinguishing it from other provinces.

She highlighted free health services the PPP has provided to the people of Sindh; the establishment of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICD) for heart diseases, the ChildLife Foundation for Children, and the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) for kidney-related ailments.

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Asifa further highlighted the initiation of emergency services such as Rescue 1122 and the launch of a bus service in Larkana.

Asifa said that the people’s problems were integral to their party’s manifesto. She pointed out the PPP’s dedication to the well-being of the people such as giving ownership rights to slum dwellers in Larkana. She promised her party would regularize slums throughout Pakistan if voted to power.

Asifa pointed out the absence of other political parties when the country was facing devastating floods in 2022. She said that her brother and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari stood by flood victims when others did not.

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Asifa promised that if voted to power, the PPP would double salaries within five years, provide 300,000 housing units for the poor, grant property ownership rights to women, and provide 300 units of free electricity.

She urged the crowd to vote for her brother stating that “since you stood with us through thick and thin and we will stand by you.”