Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has come under fire from the public for asking Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani, a man much senior to him in politics, to open a water bottle for him at a press conference.

Bilawal, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, Ghani and other PPP leaders addressed a press conference on Wednesday in Karachi. A clip from the press conference went viral over the weekend showing Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and former President Asif Zardari, picking up a water bottle from the table in front of him and handing it to Saeed Ghani to open it, Samaa reported.

Ghani diligently takes the bottle, removes the plastic wrapper around the bottle cap, and rotates the cap to open it. He then hands the bottle back to his party chairman to drink. .

As Ghani opens the bottle cap, he throws the small plastic wrapper on the ground, video clips showed. 

After handing the bottle back to Bilawal, Ghani pulls a tissue paper from the tissue box and respectfully places the bottle cap on it, waiting for Bilawal to finish drinking. After the PPP chairman places the bottle back on the table, Ghani leans forward to put the bottle cap back on.

Several Twitter users took exception to, what they called, Bilawal's elitist behaviour. Bhutto is a graduate of Oxford University, just like his mother and grandfather, former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Some social media users criticized Ghani for throwing the wrapper to the ground.

“What is this stupidity? Whatever we heard about Zardari's son seems true, he can't even open a bottle. What a slave mentality!,” said a Twitter user. (SAM)