Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is leading the ‘Salam Shuhda’ rally Sunday (today) from Bilawal House to Karsaz to pay glowing tribute to the martyrs of Karsaz bomb attack.
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will lead the rally and address its participants at the Karsaz monument on Sharea Faisal where it will also conclude.
The “Salam Shuhuda Rally” has departed Bilawal House and through Boat Basin, Mai Kolachi Road, Moulvi Tameezuddin Khan Road, Jinnah Bridge, ICI Bridge, Nawab Mahabat Khanji Road, Lea Market, Napier Road, MA Jinnah Road, Naumaish Chowrangi, Sharea Quaideen, and Sharea Faisal reach the Karsaz intersection.
According to reports, former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani, Maula Bakhsh Chandio, Nisar Khuhro, Shehla Raza and Nafesa Shan has joined the rally.
A caravan including 300 vehicles from Hyderabad has joined the rally.
Stringent security measures have been taken along the route of the rally while the party has established several reception camps as part of its preparations.
Banners have been set up on major roads of the city to spread public messages for the rally.
The main truck of the rally, which will be used by Bilawal and other central leaders of the party, will be parked on the track of Sharea Faisal leading up to airport.
The PPP chairman will address participants of the rally from the truck. Besides his main address at Karsaz, Bilawal is likely to address the rally at four different intersections along route of the rally.
Earlier, in a video message, released by the media cell of PPP, Bilawal said that he would be leading a mass rally to honour the people who had lost lives in the incident around nine years ago.
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In his message, he also remembered the sacrifices of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), Bibi Zainab (R.A) and their companions against forces of the evil in connection with the day today, 10th Muharram.
“Muharram reminds us of Karbala and the sacrifice of Imam Hussain (RA), Bibi Zainab (R.A) and his companions. Where ever there is an injustice, there is Karbala,” he said.
Bilawal maintained PPP had always struggled politically for democracy and against injustice.
“As a result, our leaders Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Shahnawaz Bhutto, Murtaza Bhutto, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and hundreds of leaders were martyred.”
Bilawal called October 18, 2007, the ‘darkest incident’ in the history of world politics.
At least 180 people, mostly PPP workers were killed and dozens injured when former prime minister and his mother Benazir Bhutto’s rally was rocked by a powerful bomb near Karsaz Karachi on October 18, 2007.
Benazir Bhutto fled to Dubai a few days after the attack but she had to return back after the then President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency in the country.
Around two months after the blasts, she was assassinated and a legal case is ongoing.
This rally was nothing but the show of power by P P P. Taking out Shuda rally for the martyrs of Karzas incident proved the immaturity of the P P P leadership. I cannot imagine how can seasoned politician like Aitzaz Ahsan, Qamar Uz Zaman Kaira, Sherry Rehman & others stand by Bilawal trying to make him the star of the Party. By these tactics they cannot gain the sympathies of the People. They are desperately trying to build his image as the heir of Z. A Bhutto & Benazir Bhutto, we knew them he can never become Bhutto. Bhutto lives in the hearts of the people and has a prominent place in the history. He was one of the most influential political leader of the world in his era.
Bhutto was a visionary leader , Bilawal cannot match his vision. If he keeps on following his father's advice then his political career is over & done. He can better serve,,his political ambitions by distancing from the father and the Aunt Faryal Talpur who declared him Shaheed in front of thousands of P PP workers.
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