PPP hijacked after killing of Benazir

PESHAWAR: Criticising the policies of the Pakistan People’s Party-led federal government, PPP leader Arbab Khizer Hayat on Thursday said certain “self-centred” people had hijacked the party and the ideological workers were being ignored.
Addressing a press conference, he said after the death of Benazir Bhutto the party lost its real leader and now it had been made a toy in the hands of a few self-centred people. He said that owing to the corrupt leadership of the PPP, Pakistan’s image had been damaged in the world and other countries did not trust the rulers while considering the economic assistance to Pakistan.
Arbab Khizer lamented that the PPP government did not trade the killers of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto despite spending millions of rupees on investigation. “If the PPP rulers have no power to identify the elements involved in the killing of Benazir Bhutto, the party government has no right to remain in power,” he stressed.
The PPP leader regretted that those “who escaped from the site of the attack on Benazir Bhutto at Liaqat Bagh were made ministers.” He said the PPP founder, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, had raised the slogan of ‘Roti, Kapra Aur Makan’ (Bread, Clothing and Shelter) but now the masses have been deprived of bread, clothing and shelter during the rule of his party. He said the real PPP workers had rendered numerous sacrifices for the cause of the party but now they were being ignored.