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Bilawal Bhutto threatens to end alliance with PML-N govt over canals project

Bilawal Bhutto threatens to end alliance with PML-N govt over canals project

Karachi, Apr 19 (UNI) Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has threatened to pull the plug on his party's parliamentary backing of the "stubborn" and "tone-deaf" PML-N-led-Shehbaz Sharif government if the controversial canals project is not immediately scrapped.
"The federal government must immediately roll back its controversial canal project, otherwise the PPP cannot work with you (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz),” Bhutto said, while addressing a public gathering in the city of Hyderabad, in the country’s Sindh province.
The controversial project has become a major issue of contention between political allies PPP and PML-N.

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