Seven years on: AJK commemorates Benazir’s death

PM says people will continue their struggle to fulfill Bhutto’s mission

MUZAFFARABAD:

The seventh death anniversary of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) slain chairperson Benazir Bhutto was observed throughout the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Saturday.

Paying glowing tributes to Benazir, the AJK Prime Minster Chaudhry Abdul Majeed said the people of Pakistan and AJK will continue their struggle to fulfill the Bhuttos’ mission under the ‘dynamic leadership’ of the PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

“The party from Khyber to Karachi and Kashmir is united under Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s supervision,” he said, while addressing a function in connection with Benazir’s seventh death anniversary in Central Press Club.

“In the last 60 years, the former ruling parties of AJK could not construct the 30km Kohala road. However, the credit goes to the PPP government that has completed 90% work on the road, which will be completed the next year,” he said.

Majeed said during the last three and a half years of the PPP government in AJK, he had urged workers to remain vigilant as the future might not be in their favour. He also hinted at certain conspiracies, which, he said, are being hatched against his government from within and outside the party.



AJK Finance Minister Latif Akbar said nobody except Benazir Bhutto had dared to challenge the terrorists and ultimately paid the price by her bold.

Meanwhile, the PPP AJK chapter’s women workers took out a rally from Legislative Assembly to Civil Secretariat. The rally was led by the AJK Legislative Assembly’s Deputy Speaker Shaheen Kausar Dar.

Speaking on the occasion, she said the Bhutto political philosophy is still the milestone of the PPP, which will continue its struggle to provide bread, clothes and shelter to the common people.

“It was only Benazir’s dynamic leadership that paved the way for middle class women party workers to reach the corridors of power,” Dar said.

The PPP’s women activists also offered prayers for the deported soul at various places across the AJK. Special meetings were also organised various districts to remember the sacrifices of former prime minister for the democracy.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 28^th, 2014.