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Thursday, July 02, 2009
A picture of the national cricket team with both the president and the prime minister was taken recently on the eve of a reception in the presidency. The photo was taken at a place where in the background are also pictures of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, President Asif Ali Zardari and the chairman of the PPP, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. The detractors of the Bhuttos found in it a great opportunity to launch a virulent campaign accusing the president of ordering the 'removal of the Quaid's pictures from the presidency and replacing it with those of the Bhuttos'.
The allegations are nothing but lies and slander. According to standard protocol the Quaid's pictures are displayed at all significant places frequented by the president and the national and international dignitaries and visitors and meeting halls etc, be it the president's office, the waiting room for the visitors, the official meeting rooms, or the main halls where state functions are held.
Pictures of former heads of states with the Quaid's picture distinctively occupying the central place in large frame overshadowing the pictures of other heads of states are also displayed in a special vantage corner attracting the attention of every visitor and guest to the ceremonies held in the presidency. The Quaid's pictures adorn all these places in the presidency as has always been the case since the presidency was built.
Even the pictures of former dictators like Zia, Musharraf and Yahya have not been removed or shifted from the special corner where photos of former heads of state are displayed.
Bhutto-haters who are frustrated over their striding the national political scene like colossuses can't tolerate their pictures adorning the walls of the presidency. To give vent to their frustration they have no qualms to resort to lies and falsehood by alleging that the Qauid's pictures had been removed from the presidency to accommodate theirs. It is a measure of the greatness of the Bhuttos that even a mention of their name boils the blood of the detractors forcing them to stoop as low as to fabricate lies and untruths to vent their frustration even if in the end they only expose themselves.
Farhatullah Babar
Spokesperson,
President House,
Islamabad
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