Asif Ali Zardari waves as he leaves the Presidential Palace after his farewell ceremony in Islamabad on September 8, 2013. PHOTO: AFP
Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari asked party leaders on Saturday to keep watch on the privatisation policies of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government and raise their voice against any incident of crony capitalism, lack of transparency and layoffs.
“PML-N’s privatisation policies seem part of an anti-worker strategy… the PPP and its workers must not allow any policy that puts the working class out of work to be implemented,” he said in a meeting with office-bearers of PPP’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chapter.
The meeting also discussed the party’s organisational matters and its strategy for local bodies’ elections.
Zardari urged PPP workers to launch an intensive campaign for the upcoming local body elections in K-P to recover the ground it lost in the general elections last year, according to his spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar. He directed PPP leaders Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and Raza Rabbani to meet party workers in K-P to address their grievances and advised provincial leaders to pay attention to PPP’s membership drive.
Zardari said the PPP had accepted the results of the May 2013 general elections ‘despite obvious manipulation’ to allow democracy to flourish in the country.
The former president also paid special tribute to 9th grader Aitizaz Hasan, who was killed while thwarting a suicide attack on his school.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 12th, 2014.
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We should listen Mr. Zardari very carefully to do the opposite.
political workers shouldn't be in national corporations in the first place as a reward for their loyalty!
Yeah time to make more money from politically appointed workers for their job security.
PPP's strategy is short term fix. it gives money to (politically appointed) worker in a national institution which causes countinuous bleeding of resources for next 30 yrs and ultimately the institution results is a massive white elephant. PIA, PSM, Railway, to name a few. PMLN on the other hand follows policy of starting small business and one loan (which will be salary of 2-3 years of a worker) will generate more jobs for others.