Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday again advised the PML-N-led federal government to adopt reconciliation rather than engaging in confrontation with the opposition, emphasising the need for the government to also take its coalition partners into confidence on key issues. Bilawal, whose party supports the ruling coalition without becoming part of the government at the Centre, expressed these views on Tuesday while addressing a function organized at the completion of one million housing units for people affected by the 2021 floods in Sindh. According to the PPP chief, people do not expect their governments to divide the nation and pit people against each other. “People expect their government to work to make their lives easier,” he said. Read: Bilawal urges govt to stop 'fighting everyone' The federal government has been at odds not only with the opposition, including Imran Khan’s PTI—whose Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government was suspended after the imposition of emergency and governor’s rule in K-P last month—but also with Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s JUI-F. After Fazl’s scathing criticism of the federal government and the powers that be following the K-P emergency, a number of federal ministers attacked the JUI-F chief as government authorities started issuing notices to Fazl-linked businesses and people for alleged rule violations.  Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of a hospital in Larkana earlier on November 7, Bilawal urged the federal government and political parties to set aside their differences and engage all political, social and provincial stakeholders to tackle the economic crisis. The PPP chief then warned that the fallout from the Iran war was placing an unprecedented burden on ordinary Pakistanis, saying that the economic consequences of the conflict were being felt across the world, from America to Larkana. He described the situation as a major test for governments, stressing that public welfare must take precedence over political confrontation. He urged the federal government to engage stakeholders rather than continue fighting political opponents. "If we remain engaged in fighting one another, with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf [PTI], with Maulana [Fazlur Rehman], with terrorists, with India and Afghanistan, then we will not be able to alleviate the suffering of the Pakistani people," Bilawal said. Also Read: 'We will fix it': Bilawal says if system has failed, hand Islamabad to Tharparkar The PPP chief maintained that political differences must take a back seat to efforts to address public hardships, adding that governments would be judged by their ability to support citizens through the economic difficulties. In his Tuesday address, Bilawal also obliquely hit out at both Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and the PML-N, saying that there was indeed a need to “reset” the system, but by allowing the country to be run by people “instead of traders and businessmen” and through unity. Mohsin Naqvi on July 31 claimed that the country’s systems needed a “reset” through the creation of new provinces. The Sindh Assembly, where the PPP is in the majority, later passed a resolution against any possible division of Sindh.  Naqvi and some other ministers, however, have continually advocated for the creation of new administrative units with an alleged proposal to divide Sindh into two provinces.  Bilawal reiterated that Pakistan, along with the rest of the world, was facing an economic crisis and that the country’s politics did indeed need to be reset to deal with it.  “[However, for this reset] all political parties should work together instead of fighting one another. The people no longer wanted to hear calls for confrontation and do not want the country’s system turned upside down at the wishes of business groups in Islamabad or Lahore.” He urged the prime minister to take his coalition partners into confidence first and engage with the opposition through dialogue rather than opening new fronts of confrontation. “Public relief would remain impossible unless the government and opposition worked together,” he added. Bilawal rejects corruption allegations in Sindh housing project The PPP chairman rejected corruption allegations in the Sindh People's Housing Scheme and accused political opponents of running a smear campaign against the provincial government, while calling for an international audit of the project to address the allegations. Bilawal said Sindh had repeatedly faced criticism, while political opponents had attempted to create an impression of widespread corruption in the province. He said political opponents had accused the PPP of raising funds for the housing project to misappropriate money. He urged Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to write to international organisations and invite them to audit the project. “I can confidently say that no corruption has taken place in this project,” he said. He urged political opponents to stop criticising and maligning the Sindh government and instead learn from its efforts to serve underprivileged communities. Bilawal said 50 per cent of educational institutions had been destroyed in 2023. One million homes completed for flood victims Highlighting the Sindh People's Housing Scheme, Bilawal described it as the world's largest housing project and said the provincial government had completed one million homes for flood-affected families. He said the PPP had launched the historic initiative at a time when the world was facing an economic crisis. The PPP chairman said the programme aimed to construct two million homes, while he also referred to a target of five million houses for flood-affected families. Bilawal said the Sindh government had undertaken the project with the support of international partners. Read more: Bilawal slams PTI's Afridi over K-P security, says PPP ready to fight terrorists He stated that the provincial government had not only constructed permanent houses for flood victims but had also provided them with ownership rights to the land. He said the ownership of houses had been registered in women's names, giving affected families greater security. The PPP chairman maintained that families who previously had no homes had been provided permanent housing. He said the government's responsibility was to provide citizens with healthcare and medical treatment facilities while taking measures to reduce the financial burden on ordinary people. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman @BBhuttoZardari addresses the ceremony today in Karachi - marking the completion of one million houses in the first phase of the Sindh government’s flagship project to build 2.1 million homes to rehabilitate the flood affectees of devastating… pic.twitter.com/H66Xc37OCn — PPP (@MediaCellPPP) November 10, 2026 Recalling the floods, Bilawal said he had been in Larkana when the heavy rains began and had never witnessed a natural disaster of such magnitude. He said he had travelled by helicopter with the prime minister and that the floodwaters had made the landscape appear like a sea. The PPP chairman recalled promising women affected by the disaster that he would help build homes for them. He said that promise had now resulted in the completion of one million houses. Bilawal said the federal government at the time had told international financial institutions that provincial governments were corrupt and that funds should therefore be provided to the Centre. He claimed that those making such statements did not even visit Sindh. The PPP chairman said the World Bank had expressed confidence in the Sindh government and released funds for the housing project. He recalled that, while serving as foreign minister, he had also raised funds for Balochistan. Bilawal said the federal government had taken responsibility for reconstruction in Balochistan, but only 30,000 houses had been built there over three years. He contrasted that figure with the one million homes he said had been completed in Sindh.