ISLAMABAD, May 29: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday announced that the government would provide residential plots in Islamabad and government jobs to the family members of those PPP workers who lost their lives in two terrorism incidents in the twin cities.

This announcement was made by Mr Zardari during his meeting with family members of the PPP workers, who lost their lives in two different terrorist incidents in Rawalpindi and Islamabad last year, at Zardari House, says a handout.

As many as 24 PPP workers died on December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi when a terrorist strike resulted in the death of Benazir Bhutto and in another incident on July 17, 2007, 18 PPP workers lost their lives when a suicide bomber hit the PPP camp established to welcome deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

Saluting the “sacrifices” of the PPP workers, Mr Zardari said the party had great regard for its workers and understood that they were the real strength of the party.

He said the PPP’s history was full of those brave men and women who had laid down their lives for the greater cause of democracy. He said the PPP’s fight was for taking revenge on a system that was unjustified to the weak, poor and downtrodden and “our revenge will be in the shape of changing this system.”

Mr Zardari hoped that history would bear testimony to PPP’s success in taking such revenge. He said some people were mistaken in their perception that PPP’s strategy reflected some kind of weakness on its part.

“We believe in thinking about the long-term impact of our policies and reforming the state structure instead of sloganeering alone,” he added.

The PPP co-chairman said Ms Bhutto’s loss was an unbearable one but she had left a message in her demise for all workers of PPP and that was to follow the path which she led in her life.