Saturday, April 3, 2021
#PPP demands apology from PML-N
Rizwan Shehzad
It is no crime that PPP elected its opposition leader as the majority party in Senate, says PPP leader.The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) sought on Saturday an apology from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for electing unopposed senators in Punjab and for helping a candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) win over the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)’s unanimous candidate Farhatullah Babar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A day after five opposition parties announced to form a new opposition bloc in the Senate and decided that a “show-cause” notice be issued to PPP and Awami National Party (ANP) for “deviating” from an earlier formula of seat distribution in the Senate, PPP lambasted PML-N for supporting PTI in Punjab and criticized a “secret meeting” of PDM parties after which they made the new bloc of 27 senators. PPP leadership also believes that a conspiracy was hatched against PDM’s long march by suddenly linking it with en-mass resignations from the assemblies, saying it was an attempt to save the PTI government. “PML-N should apologise to PPP for defeating PDM’s unanimous candidate Farhatullah Babar and helping a PTI senator win,” PPP Central Secretary Information Shazia Marri said, “Rana Sanaullah should apologise to PPP for electing unopposed senators in Punjab with the help of PTI instead of seeking an apology from PPP.” The opposition is in disarray and the rifts over the office of the Senate’s leader of the opposition deepened on April 2 when five opposition parties – PML-N, JUI-F, PkMAP and BNP-Mengal and PkMap – agreed to form a separate bloc of 27 opposition senators in the upper house of parliament. Serious differences emerged between the parties – both part of the anti-government alliance PDM – after PPP appointed its stalwart Yusuf Raza Gilani as Senate’s opposition leader, apparently in violation of what had earlier been agreed upon in a PDM meeting.In the statement, PPP MNA Shazia Marri said that “if PML-N brings a charge sheet against PPP then we also have a charge sheet against PML-N.” MNA Marri has said that “PPP will ask at whose behest a conspiracy was hatched against the long march to save the PTI government by suddenly insisting on resignations.”On last night’s meeting of the PDM parties, the PPP leader said that PPP and ANP will ask in the PDM meeting “why a secret meeting of certain parties of the opposition alliance was called.” She said that PDM is the name of the alliance against the government and “PML-N will have to explain its use against the opposition parties”. Marri added that PPP will ask the PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman why the opposition alliance is being used against the opposition parties. On the issue of resigning from the assemblies, Marri asked if resignations were so necessary then why is the PML-N still sitting in the assemblies. “On one hand, there is talk of running an opposition alliance without the PPP and on the other hand, the PML-N is not ready to resign without the PPP,” she said. Replying to PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz’s criticism on PPP for accepting votes from the senators of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), 'which follows the commands of its Baap (godfather),' Marri said that if PPP had the godfather’s hand on their shoulder, then there would have been no talk of opening cases against former president Asif Ali Zardari. After the federal cabinet’s meeting on Thursday, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry had announced that the Broadsheet Commission has found the original record of the Swiss Bank Accounts and handed it over to the government, adding that legal teams were examining the record and Swiss account cases against Zardari could be reopened. Marri further said that all the senators who voted for Gilani were elected independently and “it is a childish attitude of the PML-N to prove that independent senators belonged to BAP party. BAP is considered to be a brainchild of the security establishment and the PDM blames it for the current political morass. Moreover, she said that if PML-N wanted an opposition leader in the Senate, they should have asked PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for the post once, “he would have gladly given it”. The PML-N leadership also made a similar claim that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif would have gladly given the office of the opposition leader had PPP asked for it instead of taking support from BAP. “PPP approached the PML-N leadership to agree on the name of Yousuf Raza Gilani, which was admitted by Ishaq Dar,” she said while referring to a statement of Dar wherein he admitted that Zardari had approached him to get support for Gilani but he had turned down the request on grounds that the decision was already made in a PDM meeting and no new message should now be given to Sharif from Zardari. “It is no crime that PPP elected its opposition leader as the majority party in Senate,” she concluded.
#Pakistan - Remembering Z A Bhutto
The Lahore High Court announced the ruling of death penalty for Bhutto on March 18, 1978. Not only heads of various countries but even the secretary general of the United Nations made appeals for clemency to General Zia. It was an open secret that bias and personal grudge was evident in the conduct of the then CJ of the Lahore High Court, Molvi Mushtaq Hussain.
On April 4, 1979, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged. Ziaul Haq killed his most daunting rival in a false murder case. This news generated a strong protest from around the world. World leaders condemned this act and international newspapers deemed it as a political murder. The common consensus: ‘Bhutto was denied justice’.
Pakistanis residing abroad, especially in London and Europe, registered their protest in large demonstrations. Mir Murtaza Bhutto launched a global protest movement from Birmingham. The Pakistani and Kashmiri community came together in an exemplary chain of unity. A large number of people attended his funeral in Hyde Park. This was followed by a demonstration where the streets of London resounded with ‘Jiye Bhutto!’
Everyone across the world who believed in democracy was devastated on the eve of April 4, 1979, as they mourned the death of the strongest voice for the people of Pakistan. A voice that brought together the Muslim World. A voice that spoke against the callousness of the world on the plight of the Kashmiri people. This voice was silenced. It was a great loss and a severe setback to the dream of an independent, democratic Pakistan ruled by the common people.
There is no doubt that Bhutto was a master of the table and of dialogue. His successes in foreign policy are innumerable. He was a bridge between the third world countries and the rich and mighty, without compromising dignity. He promoted friendly relations with China and our country is still reaping the benefits of that. His determination in setting up an atomic reprocessing plant meant that Pakistan could become a nuclear power.
Bhutto chose to be a voice for the downtrodden, and highlighted the issue of Kashmir in the UN. He took politics from the drawing rooms to the common people. In true spirit, he worked towards empowering the people and brought them to the parliament. One of his many noteworthy achievements include the 1973 constitution that provided the framework for relations between the federal and provincial levels.
The military dictator, Ziaul Haq, could not accept a popular leader who had such a stronghold on the hearts of the common people and so he devised a way to sever this connection. In a special interview to Masawat Weekly London, Begum Nusrat Bhutto said, “This was not a murder case against the prime minister but a murder of justice. We want justice for an innocent person who was the elected representative of the people. His people demand justice.”
Justice was not easy to come – but the people won, and Bhutto’s legacy was carried forward by his children and his grandchildren. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s contributions have been recorded forever in the annals of history and his memory is etched in the hearts and minds of people of all generations of this nation.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/813886-remembering-z-a-bhutto
پارٹی کے بانی قائد عوام ذوالفقار علی بھٹو شہید کا فلسفہ اور افکار ہمارے لیئے مشعل راہ ہیں، صدر آصف علی زرداری
سابق صدر مملکت اور صدر پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی پارلیمنٹیرینز آصف علی زرداری نے کہا ہے پارٹی کے بانی قائد عوام ذوالفقار علی بھٹو شہید کا فلسفہ اور افکار ہمارے لیئے مشعل راہ ہے ملک میں پارلیمانی نظام کی حفاظت کرتے رہیں گے ، طاقت کا سرچشمہ عوام ہیں کے اصول پر کوئی سمجھوتہ نہیں کرینگے ۔ پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی کے بانی چیئرمین قائد عوام ذوالفقار علی بھٹو شہید کے یوم شہادت کے موقع
پر اپنے پیغام میں آصف علی زرداری نے کہا قائد عوام ذوالفقار علی بھٹو شہید نے اس ملک کی تعمیر کی، قوم کو سوچنے کیلئے شعور ، بولنے کیلئے زبان اور فخر سے سر اٹھاکر جینے کا ڈھنگ سکھایا ،آصف زرداری نے کہا دنیا کی سیاسی تاریخ گواہی دے رہی ہے کہ قائد عوام نے سیاست
کے انداز تبدیل کیئے اور عوام کی حکمرانی قائم کی ۔ آصف علی زرداری نے کہا قائد عوام ذوالفقار علی بھٹو شہید نے تختہ دار پر چڑھ کر دنیا کو بتادیا کہ عوام کا لیڈر موت کو بھی شان سے قبول کرتا ہے
مگر اصولوں پر سمجھوتہ نہیں کرتا ، آصف زرداری نے کہا کہ آج کے
ہم اپنے اس عہد کی تجدید کرتے ہیں کہ ملک اور آئین کی حفاظت کرتے رہیں گے ۔ آصف علی زرداری نے کہا کہ پاکستان پیپلزپارٹی کی حکومت نے 18 ویں آئینی ترمیم کے ذریعے صوبوں کو خود مختاری دیکر
شہید ذوالفقارعلی بھٹو کے وعدے کی تکمیل کی ، کچھ عناصر 18 ویں آئینی ترمیم کے خلاف سازشیں کر رہے ہم ان سازشوں کو ناکام بنائیں گے ،
https://www.ppp.org.pk/pr/24573/