You will not succeed, President Zardari tells ‘agents of instability’

President Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday that the agents of instability would not succeed despite the fact that some people, because of their short-sighted approaches and for their own narrow interests, were trying to capitalise on the current precarious situation in the country when the government was busy providing relief to the flood-hit people and was trying to overcome economic challenges and the energy shortage.
“However, we would not let them succeed in their bid to detract us and to create rifts among our coalition partners… the PPP (Pakistan People’s Party) from the very beginning pursued the path of reconciliation and not the confrontational course to overcome the challenges facing the country because we believe that the problems are too big to be resolved by any one party,” the president said in an interactive session with PPP National Assembly members (MNAs) of over lunch at the Presidency. Discussing the current political situation and coalition matters with the coalition partners, the president referred to the decisions by Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to continue supporting the PPP-led government and said it would strengthen reconciliation and political stability in the country.
Presidential Spokesman Farhatullah Babar quoting the president said that Zardari told the participants that when history was written, it would be recorded that a government that did not even have a simple majority in parliament was able to achieve what other governments with a two-thirds majority could not achieve during their tenure. He said that despite undue criticism and baseless propaganda against the party and its leadership,
the PPP would continue with its forward march towards strengthening the democratic institutions of the country and addressing the real problems of the people against all odds.
ILLS OF THE PAST: The president said some people tended to blame the government for the mistakes and ills of the past. However, the thoughtless reversal of some economic policies of the PPP such as the introduction of independent power producers had led to economic decline, he said.
Separately, addressing the 35th Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Export Trophy Award Ceremony, the president said the government had always kept the doors of dialogue open with all political elements in the country.