Pakistan - Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo expressed solidarity with Model Town victims‏

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A social order based on tyranny may survive for a considerable length of time but based on injustice is bound to meet final abode of decomposition sooner than later, said Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo while addressing the function here late yesterday night held to commemorate Model Town tragedy at Minhaj-ul- Quran. He added that he came with Tanvir Ashraf Kaira, Secretary General of the Party, to express solidarity with the families and the PAT whose loved ones were killed by the Punjab Police on June 16 last year at Model Town, Lahore.
He maintained that it was beyond comprehension the Chief Minister of Punjab did not know the incident of such an abhorrent proportion under his nose in which 14 innocent people were killed and ninety injured by police and the use of brutal force was seen by the people on TV screens.
If Chief Minister did not know the incident or knew but preferred to turn his blind eye to was unforgiving omission and commission adding in both cases he lost the right to rule the province because abetment and complacency could not be condoned when question of life and property of the people was at stake, he added.
He observed that democracy was all about rule of law, good governance and tolerance and in the absence of these traits a government was analogous to mobocracy adding it was manifested in its worst form on June 16 last year against the PAT workers.
He assured the victim families that the PPP would not let democracy be trampled upon under the iron feet of suppression while expressing the determination to eliminate the practice in its all forms and manifestation with the support of the people who were overwhelmingly in favour of undiluted democracy. Most of surveys carried out by various research organizations are testimony to this fact, he added.
He said that he saluted the patience of the families whose close relatives were shot dead by Punjab Police and were still waiting as when the culprits would be brought to justice. Justice will be done adding that the PPP Punjab will not rest till the perpetrators are not brought in the dock, he assured the victim families.
He recalled that the PPP and its leadership was also victim of the tyranny perpetrated by successive dictators but did not abandon the cause of empowering the people of Pakistan who were relegated to secondary position in the mainstream politics of the country.
He pointed out that it was Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who got the elite out of the drawing room politics and nudged them to go to the doors of the poor and seek their votes to entitle them to represent them in the National Assembly. It was for the first time that the members of the Assemblies were elected on the basis of one man one vote and Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto empowered the people of Pakistan for the first time and they would continue to exercise it for all times to come, he concluded.