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PPP leaders and workers held protest rallies in different parts of the city and shouted slogans against former military ruler, Ziaul Haq. They were holding party flags, banners and placards inscribed with messages and slogans against the former military ruler and the ruling party. The party had displayed banners at all main city streets.
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PPP Central Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira led the main rally from Nasir Bagh to Tolington Market on the Mall Road.
“Today, the whole nation is observing black day to register their protest against the former military dictator who overthrew the elected government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto through a military coup,” Kaira said while addressing the party workers.
Kaira said PPP leaders and workers were continuously struggling for strengthening democracy in the country. He said the nation had forgotten the former dictator soon the nation would send “his remains, Nawaz Sharif, to his home”.
“The nation is paying the price of the damage caused by Ziaul Haq in the form of sectarianism, Taliban and terrorism,” he added.
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He said the rulers were claiming that they were being victimised but one should ask them they were in power and all the public institutions were under their direct control. He questioned who was victimising them.
On July 5, 1977, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff Gen Ziaul Haq overthrew Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government in a military coup code named as Operation Fair Play. Bhutto was imprisoned and subsequently tried for the murder of a political rival. Being convicted of murder in a controversial trial, Bhutto was hanged on April 4, 1979.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 6th, 2017.
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