27 April 2005	Wednesday	17 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1426

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LAHORE, April 26: Asif Ali Zardari says the PPP has given its blood for making Pakistan a strong nation with vibrant civil society, justice and prosperity to all its citizens. The PPP’s role for defence of Pakistan and Pakistanis was unmatched, he told delegations of party office-bearers and workers from Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur, Muzaffargarh and Layyah who separately met him at Bilawal House on Wednesday.

Zardari said that Bhuttoism promised food, clothing and shelter to every Pakistani and the party was struggling to achieve the goal through fighting against the opponents of this goal. The forces obstructing the PPP from achieving this goal were destined to their defeat as the Bhuttoists would not rest until the people were not made master of their destiny, he emphasized.

The PPP leader said the gap between the haves and have-nots was growing and everyday hundreds of people were being pushed below the poverty line. Today the divide between the rich and the poor was increasing and despite the tall claims of the government people were killing themselves.

He said the rulers were sitting cross-legged while people were blubbering under poverty, unemployment, and injustices. He said his party could not tolerate this situation anymore and would wage the final round of struggle to remove all those elements from national scene who had inflicted such horrible living on the poor of Pakistan.

Zardari said jails and police lock-ups in Punjab were overcrowded with the innocent PPP workers.

However, he said arrests could not deter the PPP workers from carrying out their struggle. He assured the party workers that turncoats who had stabbed the party in the back in hard times to join the forces of oppression would not be taken back in the party fold.

The PPP, he said, wanted fresh elections to free society from oppression or suppression and test-tube politicians.

Punjab PPP President Qasim Zia, Navaid Chaudhry, Abdul Qadir Shaheen, Makhdoom Shahabuddin, Ms. Bailam Hasnain, Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, Khwaja Mudassir, Chaudhry Sarwar Abbas, Mian Mohsin Qureshi, Majid Bhutta and other office-bearers of the party organizations also spoke.