Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has called upon the people to reiterate resolve that they will not let the militants dictate their political agenda through force. Pakistan will have to be a moderate and pluralistic country where the ultimate choice is made by ballot and not bullet, he said.
In a message on the occasion of 62nd birth anniversary of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, the former president and spouse of the former prime minister extended heartfelt felicitations to the workers of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party. He especially felicitated the women and the marginalised sections of the society for whom BB had devoted her life.
Zardari said this anniversary of our great leader is being commemorated at a time when the nation has achieved major successes against militancy thanks due to the unity of political forces and state agencies, an achievement that had eluded for long.
The party recalls with pride that BB led from the front the fight against militancy even laying down her life in this epic struggle, he said.
“Let us also remember on this day all those who have sacrificed their lives for the sake of democracy, rights of the people and defending our motherland against internal and external threats. We salute all those in the defence forces, the police, the civil law enforcing agencies and the people who have sacrificed their lives or suffered otherwise in the fight against militancy. The nation cannot forget them and will not allow their sacrifices go in vain,” he said.
BILAWAL REMEMBERS BB:
Moreover, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Saturday paid tribute to former prime minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto on her 62nd birthday and pledged to pick the thread of her struggle for democratic and an egalitarian Pakistan which she left at Liaquat Bagh Rawalpindi on the evening of December 27, 2007.
“Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto lives on in every home in the form of nation’s daughters, sisters and mothers and each of them will carry her legacy forward,” Bilawal said in a message released by Bilawal House Media Cell on Saturday on the eve of her 62nd birthday being celebrated on Sunday.
The PPP Chairman said his mother fought against dictatorial regimes with bravery. She lived and died for her people and country. She laid down her life for a cause to emancipate the people from exploitation and give them equal rights, he added.
“Her father Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto gave the nation nuclear power and she founded missile system to make defence of Pakistan invincible, though both accepted martyrdom as a price in dictatorial regimes,” he added.
