KARACHI: Former President of Pakistan and President Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians, Asif Ali Zardari on the occasion of the Foundation Day of the Pakistan Peoples Party, has paid homage to the heroes of the party who were martyred while standing firm on their ideology.
Tribute was paid to those who have dedicated their lives for the party, Zardari said in a statement issued on Tuesday. He added that the PPP defeated three dictators for democracy to emerge as victorious. Courage is the heritage of the leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party and there is no doubt that the determination of the workers of the Party is also exemplary, he said. Zardari said that the Quaid-e-Awam, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto could have lived by bowing down before the dictator but he chose to sacrifice himself for the nation.
The Madar-e-Jamhooriat, Begum Nusrat Bhutto sacrificed everything for the sake of the country and the nation but never gave up, he recalled. Zardari said that Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, as a young girl resisted barbaric and brutal tyranny. He said that the democratic struggle destroyed the idols of powerful dictators. Today the graveyard of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh is inhabited by martyrs, but there is no sign of the names of their killers anywhere.
The former president said that we are the political followers of the Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. There is a difference between us and our opponents, he concluded.