Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Sindh General Secretary Taj Haider has congratulated PPP workers and office bearers of Sukkur and Larkana Division for organising the mammoth public meeting at Kamoon Shaheed in support of democracy and the brave political stand taken by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
The public meeting held on May 12, Haider said, had rekindled memories of the historic anti-Kalabagh public rally at the same place led personally by Benazir Bhutto. “One can feel confident that the 12th May rally will go a very long way in saving the federation and foiling the attempts of the right wing reactionaries to derail democracy just the way the earlier rally led by Bibi Sahiba had done.”
He noted that the rally held at the boundary of Sindh and Seraikistan province consisted of more than 80 percent youth, once again testifying to the fact that the youth of Pakistan stand solidly with the PPP. The crowd was so large that he along with three senior journalists had to abandon his vehicle and walk through the crowd for almost 5 kilometres to reach the stage, he added.
Almost simultaneously had come the welcoming decision of the Islamabad High Court, whereby the honourable judges of the court threw out a petition to unseat the Prime Minister and his cabinet, and held him as the legal and constitutional prime minister of Pakistan.
The said judgment, Haider said very effectively blocks the right wing’s attempts to drag the honourable judiciary into their own anti-people politics.
He advised the right wing politicians to stop creating hurdles in the running of the state, and create openings for adventurers to usurp state powers.
“The country has to move forward towards free and fair elections and attempts to take it back to the days of dictatorship and extremism are bound to fail,” the PPP leader said. “Let all of us collectively ensure that democracy that has won after a long and hard struggle and for which the best amongst us like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto have laid down their lives shall not be allowed to perish”, he concluded.
