LONDON - PPP Chairman Bilawal Zardari paid glowing tributes to the party founder and Pakistan’s first democratically elected prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on his 36th death anniversary.
In his message on the eve of the anniversary, Bilawal said that world history provided little glimpses where a leader of any nation had walked proudly and gallantly to the gallows refusing to shun the struggle of emancipation of his nation.
“The military dictator who conspired to finish Bhutto Shaheed himself vanished into ashes mid-air while ZAB remains in the hearts of every democratic Pakistani even after four decades,” he said.
The PPP chairman pointed out that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto threw away power and joined the masses, led their struggle for equal rights for every soul in the country.
Restoring one-person, one-vote to lay foundation for democracy and an impregnable defence of Pakistan through the nuclear programme were among the many initiatives which provoked the dictatorial and anti-Pakistan forces inside and outside.
He said that Bhutto rose to the level of an icon in the Muslim world as pioneer of democracy and equal rights, which the henchmen of dictatorial and imperial forces could not digest as they always conspired to rule the masses through power of gun.