PPP’s birth anniversary: 46th Foundation Day celebrated in Sukkur

By holding dual offices, Zardari has helped democracy in the country, says Khursheed Shah.

SUKKUR: Perhaps not wanting to alienate its supporters in Sukkur, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) marked its 46th founding day here on Sunday. While the party’s top leaders, including co-chairperson President Asif Ali Zardari, had attended elaborate functions on November 30, federal religious affairs minister Khursheed Ahmed Shah attended a seminar organised to remember the party’s founding day at a public school here.

I was in sixth grade when Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto laid the foundation of the Pakistan Peoples Party on November 30, 1967, recalled Shah on the occasion.

The present PPP government is trying its best to deal with the problems faced by the people, which are a result of faulty policies of previous administrations. “If voted into power for the next five years, PPP will provide jobs to a majority of the unemployed youth,” promised Shah.



While talking about the Kalabagh Dam and the Lahore High Court’s recent directives to the federal government to construct it, Khursheed Shah said that three provincial assemblies had rejected the project.

Courts should stay away from issues that have been dealt up with by the provinces or the parliament, advised the PPP minister. “We are not against the construction of dams, as we are going ahead with Bhasha Dam. But Kalabagh has been rejected by three provinces.”



While laying the foundation stone of a 50-bed ward and CT Scan and MRI rooms at Civil hospital, Shah criticised PPP’s chief rival, the Nawaz Sharif-led Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

The minister also expressed reservations over the apex court’s view that constituencies in Karachi need to be delimited so that no one political party gets any dominance, and was upset that the court had singled out the metropolis for such a measure.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 3^rd, 2012.