Summary Asif Zardari issued a message on eve of the 49th founding day of the Pakistan People‘s Party (PPP).
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - In a message on the eve of the 49th founding day of the Pakistan People‘s Party on Monday, Asif Ali Zardari said the PPP will continue its struggle to ensure that religion based laws are not misapplied to stifle dissent or haunt minorities.
“I wish to reiterate that the Party aims at making Pakistan a welfare driven state- a state in which the motivating force and rationale for state policies is the welfare of the people and nothing else,” he said.
The PPP Co-Chairperson stated that Bhuttoism is the name of an ideology and the founding day is an occasion to rejoice and celebrate in that ideology. It is also an occasion to renew our pledge to empower the people, emancipate women, integrate the minorities in the national mainstream and strengthen democratic institutions and to serve the masses, he said.
"It was this ideology of Bhuttoism that the previous PPP government succeeded in restoring the unanimous Constitution of 1973, opening doors of political reforms and participation in the tribal areas, taking head on the militants, launching a massive poverty alleviation program, making the workers share holders in state rune enterprises and uplifting the lot of minorities," he added.
Paying tributes to the political workers, he said that democracy has survived and flourished on their sweat, blood and tears. It is because of their sacrifices that dictatorship has not been able to take roots in Pakistan.
