Election campaign: Ghinwa Bhutto talks about alliance, dialogue

Hopes to get justice in Mir Murtaza Bhutto’s murder case that has been in court for 16 years.

BAHAWALPUR:

“The PPP-Shaheed Bhutto will not become part of any one-point agenda which wants to eliminate the current PPP government because that would be dangerous for national politics,” Pakistan People’s Party-Shaheed Bhutto Chairperson Ghinwa Bhutto said on Wednesday.

The country had seen the negative effects of a similar movement in the past, she said.

She was addressing the Rahim Yar Khan district bar.

She said her party was considering several options for the forthcoming general elections.

Dialogue with different political parties was in progress, she said.

“We will make an alliance with only that party which matches our thinking, vision and our agenda,” she said.

She said the current government was worse than dictatorship as it had snatched basic rights from the people. She said Pakistan had been divided into two groups.

“One is leading the county and the second is enslaved.”

She expressed concern about the “worsening peace situation” in the country, especially in Karachi.



She said some ruling political parties with influence in the region received billions of rupees from factory owners in the name of extortion.

“If they refuse, their factories are burned,” she said.

Refuting the Local Government Ordinance of the Sindh government, Ghinwa Bhutto said this will make way for powers such as the European Union and the World Trade Organisation to take over resources in Karachi.

She said that Mir Murtaza Bhutto’s murder case was still in the court and she hoped to get justice on it.

She said if Benazir Bhutto’s murderers were not located now, they never would be.

“With the end of the current government, all the evidence related to her murder case will be destroyed,” she said.

District bar president Malik Sajid Ali Feroz lauded Ghinwa Bhutto’s efforts and called her a “brave lady”.

He hoped she would continue her struggles.



Later, addressing local party workers and women at the residence of the central committee member, Dr Aslam Naro, Ghinwa Bhutto said that before making new provinces, the government must make arrangements to transfer the provincial independence to the lower level.

“The creation of new provinces will only benefit the bureaucrats in the form of privileged jobs,” she said.

She said that for the last 16 years opposition parties had been trying to eliminate the PPP-Shaheed Bhutto from the country’s politics, but had not succeeded.

She said that the people of Pakistan were frustrated and wanted to get rid of the current situation that the ruling government had put them into. She said it was time they were prepared for a change.

Ghinwa Bhutto is expected to arrive in Bahawalpur on Thursday (today), where she will address the High Court bench. She would also join the All Pakistan Clerks Association in their protest against the government for not issuing them notification for temporary alternative duty assignment (TADA) allowance, conveyance allowance and upgrade allowance.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 29^th, 2012.