Bilawal attends breakfast ceremony hosted by Trump

WASHINGTON: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was among high-ranking personalities from across the globe attending the National Prayer Breakfast hosted by US President Donald Trump.

According to media reports, the event occurred at 7am in the US capital, Washington DC, and continued for around 7 hours.  Bilawal arrived in the United States on Monday to attend the breakfast on the invitation of the US president.

Several National Prayer and Faith ceremonies are being held in the US this week, wherein US President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance will participate.

Amid media speculations,, Bilawal had earlier confirmed that he was going to attend breakfast at the invitation of the US president in a personal capacity.

“As far as my US visit is concerned, this is completely true. I will definitely go for breakfast, a practice that’s continued from my mother’s tenure. There’s a possibility of holding meetings with friends of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto there,” he said in response to a query by a media outlet if he was invited to an event of the Trump administration.

“Neither I’m a minister nor a government official so this [trip of mine] is not official or as a representative of the government,” he had said.

This is the first time that Bilawal has attended a ceremony hosted by Trump. PPP Co-chairman Zardari had attended the pre-inauguration oath ceremony of Trump in Washington, DC in 2017.