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KARACHI:
President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday vowed to be a
guarantor of the future generations of Pakistan, saying that
the Pakistan People’s Party government would create a better
country than what it had received. The president stressed
that nobody should be allowed to impose his views through
the barrel of the gun and dictate his brand of Islam.
Addressing a public meeting on the inauguration of the
Benazir Bhutto Apna Ghar housing scheme for PIA employees
here, the president said in memory of the Bhuttos, they
would create a brighter Pakistan.
“We are turning their (Bhuttos’) words into action and we
are not merely raising slogans as we are not political
actors. We are making and saving Pakistan,” he added. |
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“We are turning
their (Bhuttos’) words into action and we are not merely
raising slogans as we are not political actors. We are
making and saving Pakistan,” he added.
The people will remember the PPP’s period of governance for
its service to the people, he said, adding: “We have to live
in history, while others want to live in tomorrow’s
headlines.”
The president said that now prime ministers would only be
made by the people and not by influential political leaders.
“We are ready to render sacrifices for Pakistan and our next
generation will also be ready to do the same. Our leaders
preferred death over life and we are not afraid of threats
and propaganda as the PPP is a sapling of Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto for which its workers spilled their blood.”
He said he would keep watch on the performance of the prime
minister, ministers and government officials.
He said Benazir Bhutto sacrificed her life when she was
voicing support for raising the national flag in Swat and
protecting the rights of people.
He said Zulfikar Ali Bhutto considered politics as worship
and he was also following the same philosophy.
The president assured that housing facilities would be
provided to every Pakistani and workers would get ownership
in government entities.
On the birth anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
Zardari said he had come with a message of happiness, adding
that workers of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
would be regularised and their salaries would be increased.
Zardari said he was only fulfilling his duty by giving
rights to workers of the OGDCL, PIA, Civil Aviation
Authority and other organisations. He pledged to fulfil the
dreams and promises made by Shaheed Zulfikar Bhutto and
Benazir Bhutto.
He said those who martyred Benazir Bhutto did not understand
that the legacy of Zulfikar Bhutto lives on in every PPP
worker.
Bhuttos are alive in every person and whatever I am doing
was to fulfil the vision and mission of the founder of the
PPP, he added.
The president said that he learned his lessons of politics
from Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto.
The president said that the PPP should only raise the slogan
of Jeay Bhutto. The legacy of Bhutto would be transferred
from one leader to the next.
Zardari said he realised that people were facing the
problems of price hike and unemployment.
He said that the PPP government was fighting the killers of
Benazir Bhutto and thousands of PPP workers, army Jawans and
policemen.
“We will fight those who killed our countrymen, stabilise
democracy and give rights to everybody.”
He said nations face challenges in their history as Sri
Lanka fought for 40 years to get through difficult times.
He said that the country was facing external and internal
enemies who were out to snatch rights of vulnerable sections
of people.
“Resources of the country belong to the poor people,” he
said, adding that in the new age, after getting ownership
rights, labourers and peasants should improve their
institutions and leave them in a better shape for their
future generations.
President Zardari urged the people to work hard by following
motto of Quaid-i-Azam and help achieve goals of ending
terrorism and alleviating poverty and unemployment.
“We are citizens of this soil and our forefathers lived here
and we have to save this land and secure future of our
children,” he remarked.
The president said the Bhutto family embraced martyrdom to
leave a message and a legacy from which he drew strength to
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