Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, has attributed the nation’s long-standing issues on “powerful lobbies and bureaucracy,” calling his party’s manifesto solution for all the challenges ahead of the national elections. Bilawal was discussing his party’s manifesto, “Chuno Nai Soch Ko (Choose new thinking)” with students on Monday at the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) campus in Islamabad. The PPP chairman reaffirmed his commitment to help the poor after eliminating all subsidies to the upper strata of society, promising tough steps to break the hold of elites and powerful lobbyists. With the election on February 8, all political parties are gearing up for battle, their platforms and pledges aimed at appeasing voters.