-BB’s 13th death anniversary being observed
-Zardari calls for political dialogue
-Bilawal vows to fulfill his mother’s mission
-Fazal skips PPP’s rally
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GARHI KHUDA BAKSH: Former President Asif Ali Zardari publically called for political dialogue in his virtual speech during PPP’s rally observing 13th death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto here on Sunday.
While in his speech he signaled dialogue with government by saying “let come forward to learn something from us, as I told earlier Imran Khan that either drive Country or NAB”, adding, Imran Khan has destabilized the country s economy.
Addressing via video link in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Asif Zardari said that the PTI cannot run the country, these are the people who run the cricket team. They do not have the thinking to run the country and will fall on their own.
He said that Bibi had taught me and the children, we will take account of everything but with democracy. Even, I try to bring all political parties on one page.
“Don t tell each other, learn something from us,” he said. Musharraf was ousted like a bee when he was president, Imran Khan is nothing. We have to change our methods, we have to fill the jails. This government will not last, then the government of the poor will come in power.
Asif Zardari said that the name of PPP is everywhere in the country. Everyone is hopeful that only Bhutto’s party will bring prosperity to their lives once in the power. In the PPP era, everything was cheap.
Addressing the rally at the mausoleum of Benazir Bhutto, the PPP chairman said that they needed the intelligence of her mother in the country’s politics.
“She was not afraid of death as she knew that her coward attackers were preparing to assassinate her, but she returned despite all threats for the love she had for people of Pakistan,” he said.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto told her in the last meeting to never leave the masses alone and she took it as a mission, which began from the gallows and culminated at Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh, where she embraced martyrdom, said the PPP chairman.
Bilawal Bhutto further hoped that the mission for which Benazir Bhutto embraced martyrdom will be accomplished soon.
“You have to promise me to fulfill Benazir’s mission to save Pakistan,” he asked the participants and added that they want a country where there is justice, tolerance and freedom to speak freely.
He said that conspiracies had always surrounded Benazir Bhutto but she never took them seriously. “Although she is not amongst us to lead in the current political scenario, however, her principles will always be there to guide us,” he said.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007 by a 15-year-old suicide bomber called Bilal. She had just finished an election rally in Rawalpindi when he approached her convoy, shot at her and blew himself up. Bilal had been asked to carry out the attack by the Pakistani Taliban.
Meanwhile it was reported that differences between the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) have emerged as it has been revealed that Maulana Fazlur Rehman excused himself from attending the death anniversary of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Larkana due to ‘personal anger’.
On Thursday, Asif Ali Zardari had extended an invitation to Maulana Fazlur Rehman to attend the death anniversary event of Benazir Bhutto in Larkana on December 27, but he had excused.
Reports said that JUI-F was not happy with the PPP over non-appointments of the ‘favorite’ persons in Sindh. It was also learned that appointment of Fazl’s brother in Karachi’s central district was also made on JUI-F’s demand.
The demands were presented before Lahore’s public rally to the PPP on which Bilawal Bhutto Zardari showed his resentment.It also emerged that a JUI-F leader had threatened a sit-in protest in PPP’s strong fort, Larkana if their demands were not met.
It is to be mentioned here that, on behalf of Fazlur Rehman, a five-member delegation including Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Siraj Ahmed Khan, Abdul Razzaq and Saud Afzal is attended the PPP’s public rally in Larkana Yesterday.
