Zardari calls for upholding ‘rule of the people’

'Pledging loyalty to Constitution means acknowledging supremacy of Parliament as the authentic court of the people'

Former president Asif Ali Zardari urged the nation on Sunday to pledge on this Independence Day they would ensure the rule of the people, according to the philosophy of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

In a message on the eve of August 14, Zardari, also the co-chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), stressed that pledging loyalty to the Constitution meant acknowledging the supremacy of Parliament as the authentic court of the people.

“Today, the leadership and workers of the PPP renew the pledge to make Pakistan a democratic and welfare state, according to the ideology of the Quaid-i-Azam, for which Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto had fought,” he said.

He emphasised that the PPP leadership had always struggled for a just and egalitarian society, “where humanity is valued, a society free from fear and terror, where there is peace and an atmosphere of patience and tolerance”.

“Our war against poverty and ignorance is still going on. Pakistan can develop when the people are economically stable. We can join the developed countries of the world,” the former president said.