Karachi: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to meet his party’s four-point demand or face a tougher opposition by the turn of the year.

The young chairman of the party held a press conference ahead of the death anniversary of his mother Benazir Bhutto, to be observed on December 27, the deadline Bilawal has set for the government to respond to his demands including a probe into the Panama Papers leak, in which Sharif’s family has been named.

He said that he had been demanding the prime minister of a just probe into the Panama leaks from the day the news of the scam broke and his party leaders had several rounds of negotiations with the opposition as well as ruling parties but they did not appear to be serious.

“They are not making fun of us, but they are making fun of the people of Pakistan,” Bilawal remarked.

He said that Prime Minister Sharif promised the nation on the floor of parliament to launch a probe into Panama papers, offering himself to accountability.

“But as of now, one year has lapsed and the PPP as well as Pakistani people have been going around the Election Commission and the courts, wondering whether they would ever get justice or not,” he said.

The PPP chairman expressed his disappointment over the prime minister’s indifference to his demands of immediately pass Panama Bill drafted by his party. The other demands included appointment of a full-fledged foreign minister, reconstitution of the parliamentary committee on national security, and implementation of the resolution on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a $46-billion project whose financial benefits are sought by all four provinces.

“Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is a very intelligent man, He has hidden his wealth — his fortunes that he has stolen from this country, from the people of Pakistan until 2016,” Bilawal lamented.

“He was elected thrice. How come that we did not know that he had looted this country and stashed his wealth abroad,” he wondered.

Bilawal further said that if the prime minister was not willing to respond to his demands, then he would have to face the PPP after December 27, when Bilawal would lay out his future plan of campaigning against the government.

“You will have to answer the nation (about the corruption) and you will know befittingly after December 27,” Bilawal warned the prime minister.

The PPP chief also expected other political parties to join his protest campaign as they also had agreed with the four-point demands in the different all-party conferences held to evolve a national consensus on the issue.