January 14, 2008	Monday	Muharram 04, 1429

BADIN, Jan 13: The Badin chapter of the Pakistan People’s Party on Sunday appealed to party workers and sympathisers to help complete Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s mission for the restoration of democracy by exercising patience and tolerance.

PPP leaders reiterated the party’s demand for probe into Ms Benazir Bhutto’s assassination under aegis of the United Nations during their addresses at a gathering on the Shah Latif Road where free food was distributed among the poor.

The party’s provincial information secretary Dr Fehmida Mirza said that PPP had remained target of people who never wanted to see Pakistan grow into a strong democratic country. The party leaders had been physically removed and martyred because they were faithful to the country, she added.

She paid rich tributes to Shaheed Bhutto and said she chose death instead of surrender.Benazir Bhutto always upheld the cause of the poor and the downtrodden, including peasants, workers and youth and wanted to bring about a new order in the country, she said.

She said that Ms Bhutto had been receiving threats to life before her homecoming and saw 150 of her soldiers killed and maimed in Oct 18 attack on her welcome rally in Karachi but she never showed any signs of fear or weakness.

Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza said that after the Oct 18 suicide blasts Shaheed Bhutto herself had pointed her finger to the government and intelligence officials accusing them of plotting to kill her.

He expressed surprise that how the former chief minister Arbab Rahim was able to predict with precision that Shaheed Bhutto’s procession would come to an end before 12 night. Arbab should also dragged into the investigation, he stressed.

Earlier, the participants of the gathering passed a resolution demanding probe of Shaheed Bhutto’s murder by UN commission by raising their hands.