Karachi: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the patron in chief of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) said on Monday that he would contest the next national elections from the constituency he inherited from his slain mother.

The young PPP chief who usually interacts with the people through social media, mostly Twitter, was talking to a group of journalists at Bilawal House, his residence.

He said that he would contest his debut election in 2018, when the present national assembly would complete its tenure. The slain leader Benazir Bhutto would contest the elections from the two constituencies currently under the jurisdiction of Larkana district in the northern Sindh province.

Bilawal also appreciated the ceasefire by the Punjabi Taliban saying that it was a positive development but it did not mean that the past terrorist activities might be condoned. He further said that still Ali Hyder Gilani, the son of former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, was in custody of the Taliban. Ali was kidnapped by the Taliban from Multan before the election of 2012, when he was on his election campaign.

He further said that the terrorism activities could not be tolerated and the law should take its course to dispense justice.

The budding PPP leader condemned the politics of sit-in saying that this was not the time to continue such protests as the country was badly suffering from floods and subsequent loss of hundreds of human life and property.

Bilawal saiid that helping the displaced people was the biggest challenge for the nation and everyone should step up to help them out instead of indulging in non-serious politics.

He further said that the sit-ins were mere hoax and if the electronic media stopped creating hype through broadcasting them live, there would be no importance or significance to those protests.

Referring to the recent attack on the Pakistan Navy facilities at the Karachi Dockyard, Bilawal said that it seemed that it was an insider job. He ruled out presence of Sindhi Taliban as some media coined the term. Owais Jakhrani, a Navy official who was an ethnic Sindh was killed in the attack and was considered to join the militant groups after he resigned from the Pakistan Navy some four months before the attack.