PPP ready do stand in opposition alone if needed, Bilawal says

• Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said his party is ready to join hands with allies or to do opposition alone.
  
• He says those who martyred Bhutto in fact murdered the dreams of the founding fathers and buried the future of Pakistani generations.
• PPP chairman was addressing a ceremony in connection with the 42nd death anniversary of former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

NAUDERO: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said his party is ready to join hands with allied parties or to do opposition alone, but it will not sit easy until it sends the "puppet government" packing, The News reported on Monday.

The PPP chairman, while addressing a ceremony in connection with the 42nd death anniversary of former prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, said that only "they [the PPP] know how to run a movement in a democratic manner".

"[Despite] whatever happened to us, we are ready to forget everything for the bigger cause. Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto worked with the same people who tortured Asif Zardari and exiled her," the PPP leader recalled.

He said that 10 years later, PPP is sending Yousuf Raza Gilani back to parliament.

The same parties which disqualified Yousuf Raza Gilani have now voted for him to become senator, he noted.

Bilawal said those who martyred Bhutto in fact murdered the dreams of the founding fathers and buried the future of Pakistani generations.

"Pakistan would have been a welfare state with a vibrant economy and society, seen as a role-model Muslim country in the world, had Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto not been hanged," the PPP chairman maintained.

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He said Bhutto was an iconic leader, who had laid the foundations for equitable economic, political, and democratic infrastructure. He added that the passing of the 1973 Constitution remains till today the greatest democratic achievement of this country. 

He said that the policies of Bhutto led to the establishment of huge industrial, economic and commercial ventures that revolutionised the country by redistributing wealth from the hands of a few to the many.

“It was unfortunate that dictator Zia overthrew Bhutto’s legitimately elected government and landed Pakistan into a quagmire of intolerance, extremism, and poverty,” he said.

“Dictators and their selected unguided missiles imposed on this nation subsequently destroyed the democratic, societal and economic fabric, decimating all gains of transferring power to the people by concentrating it back into the hands of a few,” he added. 

Bilawal aimed to carry on the mission of its founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto, continuing the struggle for a strong, democratic, egalitarian, and progressive nation.