ZAB's political legacy lies in the constitution: Bilawal Bhutto
Bilawal said ZAB gave the country its first unanimously approved Constitution of 1973.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday said that the legacy of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was not his name or personality but rather the leftist ideology that saw the largest gains for the people of Pakistan.
In his message on the 92nd birth anniversary of PPP founder Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB), he said that the former prime minister had led a movement to devolve power to the people the forces of tyranny and regression had unsuccessfully spent the next 40 years trying to malign and sully his legacy.
The PPP chairman said that the love that the people of Pakistan still show for him proved that he was the only leader after the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah who had struggled for the empowerment of the masses.
Bilawal went on to say that soon after ZAB took oath as Pakistan’s first elected prime minister, he managed to bring back 93,000 Pakistani prisoners of war and retrieved more than 5,000 kilometers of Indian occupied area of Pakistan.
The PPP chairman said: “ZAB had healed the wounds of Pakistan’s second partition by recognizing the state of Bangladesh and extending a hand of friendship to Mujeeb-ur-Rehman by inviting him to the first OIC summit in Lahore.”
“He [ZAB] gave the country its first unanimously approved Constitution of 1973 and laid the foundations for an equitable federation that promoted unity and harmony,” Bilawal said.
“By giving Pakistan a nuclear program he had also ensured the security and safety of the country from any foreign adventurism,” Bilawal said and added it was ZAB who had legalized unions and outlawed anti-labour policies and gave workers a voice by making them stakeholders in the management of industrial entities.
