April 4, 2003	Friday	Safar 1, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, April 3: Former premier and PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto has asked all the democratic forces to fight for the sovereignty of the people and the parliament. We all must join hands to throw out the Legal Frame Work Order (LFO), the instrument of the anti-democratic elements to rob the people of their rights.

In her message on the death anniversary of PPP founding chairman, the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, falling on April 4, she said: “Today more than ever there is a need for young people to learn from the life of a great leader of the Indus Valley civilization, a brave man who defied fear and death to forever carve out his name in the hearts and minds of humanity and history.

“April 4 is a day of national shame. For it was on this day 24 years ago Pakistan’s first directly elected prime minister and founder of the Pakistan People’s Party was martyred by a military dictator.

“Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founded the PPP to give power to the poor, the downtrodden, the deprived and dispossessed sections of the society to help shape their own destiny.

“The dictator and anti-democratic forces conspired to eliminate him because they feared that as long as he was around neither dictatorship could flourish nor the peoples’ voice silenced.

“He was truly a great man who towered over the politics of Pakistan for four decades. His call and his cause were such that ordinary mortals became extraordinary when they followed him. Today political personalities as diverse as Prime Minister Jamali and Imran Khan speak admiringly of him.

“The survival of the country and the federation lay in return to sovereignty of parliament, constitutionalism and peace in the region”, she maintained.