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Message
of President of Pakistan and Co-Chairman PPP on Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir
Bhutto’s 57th birthday
June
21, 2010
Today on
the eve of the 57th birthday of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto I
ask the Party workers to reiterate their commitment to the values she stood and
fought for and when the time came even laid down her life for it.
She
fought courageously against the militants and extremists bent upon forcing
their ideological agenda on the people through brute force. As she shed her
blood in this fight I ask the Party workers to donate blood on this day for our
soldiers, policemen and the civilian population whose also have shed their
blood for making Pakistan a country of moderation and pluralism where ballot
and not bullet will determine the ultimate choice of the people.
On her
birthday let us recall the advice she gave to the people a few weeks before her
assassination: “Please continue the fight against extremism,
dictatorship, poverty and ignorance”. It was not a mere slogan; she acted
upon it herself by leading the fight from the front.
Let us
celebrate the life of Shaheed Mohtarma by proclaiming once again that we will
neither suffer a destiny thrust upon us by bigots and brigands nor allow
militants and extremists to destroy our country and our way of life in the name
of religion.
The two
cherished dreams of Shaheed Mohtarma were; democratic plurality and
emancipation of the downtrodden and marginalized sections of society. On this
occasion I wish to reiterate that the PPP will continue its forward march to
strengthen democracy and for the uplift of the marginalized as envisioned by
her. We will not be deterred by conspiracies against it or by the hurdles
created in our way. Let there be no doubt or mistake about it.
The
Party survived even the judicial murder of its founder Chairman and the
country’s first directly elected Prime Minister Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the exile and subsequent assassination
of its second Chairperson Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and the plethora of
accusations and witch hunting of its leaders and workers. It will continue to
defy odds and grow from strength to strength.
On this
occasion, let us also remember all our martyrs. Our brave soldiers and members
of law enforcing agencies have laid down their lives so that the nation lives
in freedom and without fear. The martyrs of democracy have suffered
incarceration, exile, torture and executions. We salute them all on this day.
Asif Ali Zardari
