PPPP to return to its roots

Daily Times

Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) on Thursday announced to rejuvenate its credentials as anti-establishment, anti-status quo and anti-imperialist party.

“The PPPP was founded asan anti-establishment, anti-status quo and anti-imperialist party and now has to be rejuvenated on these basic principles,” PPPP Additional Secretary General Senator Raza Rabbani stated while referring to the July 5, 1977 incident when the first PPPP government was toppled by military dictator Gen Ziaul Haq. The PPPP which would celebrate July 5 as ‘Struggle Day’ came up with a scheme to rejuvenate its credential as anti-establishment party. Being founded as an anti-establishment and anti-imperialist party, it went totally against its basic founding principles when during its last tenure it was transformed into a pro-establishment party and received criticism on tilt towards the establishment. Rabbani said the party brought about a people’s revolution under the guidance of ZA Bhutto and broke the status quo when the working class were given their rights. “The establishment never accepted the party and it struggled against four military dictators, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, lackeys of establishment like Farooq Laghari and the international imperialists,” he added.