Bilawal pays tribute to ZA Bhutto

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said the Pakistani nation will feel the pain of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s loss for ages, but those who took the life of this great leader have fallen into the dustbin of history forever.

Paying tribute to the founder chairman of the party on his 39th death anniversary, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Bhutto gave a vibrant, unanimous and strong structure of the state through the 1973 constitution.

Two years later, he united the Muslim world as a global force to reckon with and emerged as international visionary leader, added the PPP chairman. He said Bhutto laid the foundations of a true democracy with equal suffrage and launched both macro-economic and micro-economic projects to uplift the whole country and its citizens without any discrimination.

Bilawal further pointed out that Bhutto was aware of maintaining the regional security balance and launched a nuclear programme for an impregnable defence of the country a couple of years after he had got freed 90,000 Pakistani troopers held as prisoners of war (POW) from the Indian camps. He said the PPP founder also recovered occupied Pakistani territory back through his diplomatic skills.

He said Bhutto inspired the whole nation and brought out politics from the drawing rooms to the streets among the people taking ayes from the whole nation for all the major decisions. The PPP founder initiated mega projects like Pakistan Steel, Mechanical and Aeronautical Complexes, Port Qasim and a score of other industrial units of immense importance at the time, noted Bilawal.

“He was a friend of the poor, downtrodden and voiceless. He enlightened peasants, industrial workers, women, students and the common man about their importance and their right of franchise.”

They were legitimate fountainhead of the political power,” the PPP chairman said. He said Bhutto showed to the nation how to live and die proudly and the courage he displayed during his life and death made him a tall icon in Pakistan as well as in the world. Bilawal reiterated the commitment of the party leadership and workers to the ideals and vision of Bhutto and vowed to accomplish his unfinished mission and epic struggle.