February 16, 2008	Saturday	Safar 08, 1429

GUJRAT, Feb 15: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has vowed to take the revenge of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination by “changing the current system democratically, according to the wisdom of former prime minister.”

After offering his condolences to the family of Benazir’s security in-charge, Tauqeer Kaira, in Lalamusa on Friday, Zardari quoted his spouse’s iconic statement “Democracy is the best revenge” and told a glum gathering that neither his party nor his family believed in taking revenge from any human being.

Tauqeer, happened to be a good friend of Zardari, was among several other guards who were killed along with scores of others in the Dec 27 Liaquat Bagh carnage, also claiming the life of former PPP chairperson.

Tauqeer’s father Chaudhry Akram Kaira and PPP leaders Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Nawabzada Ghazanfar Ali Gull and others were also present.

Zardari said that the PPP’s history was replete with sacrifices and like the sacrifices of Bhutto family, the sacrifice of Kaira family would also be remembered for a long time to come.

He recalled his seven years incarceration in Punjab prisons and said that he was well aware of the devotion and loyalties of the Punjabis and their sacrifices were evident from the fact that Tauqeer and several other Punjabis had laid their lives while guarding Benazir.

“National integration is the need of hour as life has been made miserable through generating the crises of power, gas, water and flour and only PPP can redress the miseries of the country and its masses following the footsteps of Benazir,” Zardari said while vowing to save Pakistan by confronting all the voices raised against the integrating of Pakistan either in Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab or NWFP.

He acknowledged the support of the Punjabis for Zulifiqar Ali Bhutto and his daughter Benazir and said that he was well aware of his responsibilities in this connection.

Strict security arrangements were made on the arrival of Zardari. A special medical team also examined the meal that was served to Zardari.