Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has apologised for using inappropriate words during a press conference a day earlier, it was reported on Thursday.
Speaking to journalists in the corridors of Parliament in Islamabad, Bilawal was asked about his earlier statement in which he had said that the Balochistan Liberation Army, Sindhi nationalist groups and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were working together against Pakistan.
A journalist asked Bilawal Bhutto whether he considered nationalist groups to be working against the country.
Responding to it, PPP Chairman Bilawal said there had been a “wrong choice of words” in his statement on Wednesday.
Bilawal clarified that he was referring to separatist groups that had adopted violence and were involved in terrorism, whether in Balochistan or elsewhere.
The PPP chairman further stated that the TTP had carried out attacks in the past, while other separatist groups had also been involved in violence.
Bilawal said there was now an alliance between such organisations and claimed that facilitators for these groups were based in a neighbouring country.
PPP Chairman Bilawal added that this was what he had intended to refer to in his remarks in the press conference.
