Zardari is not ZAB: Naheed

ISLAMABAD (INP) - Senior politician and former Secretary of late Benazir Bhutto, Nahid Khan has said that President Asif Ali Zardari is the Co-Chairman of PPP but can neither become Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto nor can equal Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. Speaking in a private TV programme on the occasion of 32nd death anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Naheed Khan said that CEC of the PPP has never discussed seriously Shaheed Benazir Bhutto murder case and to avoid public criticism, the CEC members had been saying that investigation into assassination had been underway. 'Members of the CEC have decided to file reference about Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanging case and it should be seen that late Z.A. Bhuttos innocence had been proved with hundreds of thousands devotees who thronged Ghari Khuda Baksh on the eve of his death anniversary, she remarked. She said that masses wanted to know about the killers of Benazir Bhutto but the Cabinet and the CEC have failed to make any progress and this is condemnable. Naheed said that they had been trained by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and during her life when important issues were discussed, some of them sometimes disagreed with the arguments of Benazir Bhutto which was the essence of democracy. She said that Zardari has failed badly to run the party as his decisions have created divide between the workers of PPP and its leadership. She urged the CEC members to focus upon the manifesto of PPP which was food, shelter and clothes and also devise such economic policies which in return give relief to the general public. Another senior politician and suspended CEC member, Dr Israr Shah said that CEC of PPP has lost its credibility because Zardari devotees were sitting in the CEC who have demoralised it, adding, that people were well aware about the names of these cronies. Israr Shah said that when party leadership is surrounded by yes men, the party would not meet the aspirations of the people. He regretted that Asif Ali Zardari after undergoing several years of jail, the CEC and the party were being run not through the committed workers but by personal friendship. Commenting on the question that Zardari said some dirty eggs were trying to become Bhutto but they will not get such importance, he said that leaders like Bhutto are born in centuries and use of such abusive language was not appropriate on the part of the party Co-Chairman.

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