LAHORE:
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will soon hold a meeting through video-link with the provincial presidents of the party to finalise arrangements for the party’s foundation day on November 30.
PPP Punjab president Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo announced this at an executive committee (EC) meeting.
“The schedule of the chairman’s visit to Lahore will be discussed in a few days. We have been asked to be prepared,” an EC member told The Express Tribune.
Wattoo said after the meeting that party workers should welcome Bilawal enthusiastically.
“Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has already issued directives to make Bilawal House, Lahore, as active as Bilawal House, Karachi.” He said some politicians kept switching parties. “If some people quit the PPP, others join it,” he said. Wattoo said the PPP was ready to contest mid-term polls. He said the party would do well if elections were held fair.
He said several Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNAs did not want to resign. “They are showing maturity. This will help steer the political system in the right direction,” he said.
He said that the PTI had decided to resign from the National and all Provincial assemblies except Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “This is double standards.”
Wattoo said the PPP had backed the government in the recent standoff for the sake of democracy. “The PPP has rendered huge sacrifices for democracy,” he said.
Earlier, the executive committee passed two resolutions condemning the suicide bombing at Wagah Border and the lynching of a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan.
One of the resolutions said that terrorists would not succeed in weakening the resolve of the nation to defeat terrorism. It said the PPP appreciated Pakistan Army’s operation against terrorists. The PPP stands behind the army to eliminate terrorists from the country, it said. The resolution praised the management of Ghurki Hospital for providing prompt medical care to the bombing victims.
The other resolution condemned the killing of a Christian couple after being accused of blasphemy. The resolution said that the incident had brought Pakistan ignominy.
The resolution expressed the PPP’s resolve to protect the life and property of the minority communities.
It expressed the party’s resolve to help the victim family by extending them legal and financial help. It said action in this regard was already underway.
Tanvir Ashraf Kaira, Samina Khalid Ghurki, Raja Raiz, Mushtaq Awan, Azizur Rehman Chan, Firdous Ashiq Awan, Ghulam Farid Kathia, Dewan Mohyuddin, Suhail Milk, Mian Abdul Waheed, Main Ayub, Chaudhry Manzoor and Abdul Qadir Shaheen attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 8th, 2014.
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