PPP to contest elections under protest: Benazir Bhutto

RAWALPINDI: PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said PPP will participate in the elections under protest adding her party will not leave the electoral fields open for political orphans.

She said this while addressing party workers at the residences of candidates of constituencies No 54 and 55.

“ I had invited leadership of all the political parties to tea to forge consensus. Nawaz Sharif wanted to come but he could not come despite efforts”, she said. On the other hand Qazi Hussain did not want to sit with us, she added.

“We have decided to take part in the elections under protest in the light of principles of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto”, she underscored. If other parties go for working out joint strategy then it can be considered, she added.

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was physically murdered, she said adding but he is martyr and he is still alive in the hearts of people. “ Later conspiracy was hatched to kill me, she added. PPP had always waged struggle against the dictatorship and never accepted it , she held. If it is said PPP has made a deal with military dictatorship then it is said wrong, she remarked.

PPP is symbol of federation, she said adding but the remnants of dictatorship do not want prosperity of the people.

Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah created Pakistan with popular force and not with the force of tank and bullet, she said. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto brought about revolution against Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan with the help of people, she added. Labor, peasants, poor masses and journalists are our real force”, she underlined. 90 percent media has been liberated. All political workers and lawyers be released, she demanded.

She maintained the writ of government was not established in tribal areas. National flag is being lowered there, she added. Flag is symbol of dignity and reverence, she added.

National integrity is at stake, she said. No one knows his children reach the schools safe or not, she added. Inflation, unemployment and lawlessness are rampant, she remarked. World has provided $10 billion to Pakistan but inflation is on rise, she said. Where this assistance has gone, she questioned.

Lawyers are symbol of law, she said adding violence against the lawyers will not be tolerated, Labor, peasants, policemen, soldiers, journalists, teachers , judiciary and all have to come forward to save the country, she added. Pakistan is country of all of us. If it suffers, we all will suffer, she held.

President in uniform is nor more in the country and this is success of martyrs of Karsaz tragedy, she observed.