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December 31, 2008	Wednesday	Muharram 02,1430

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HYDERABAD, Dec 30: The Pakistan People’s Party leader and confidante to Ms Benazir Bhutto for 20 long years, Naheed Khan, has termed the Charter of Democracy a sacred document and demanded that it should be implemented to keep Benazir Bhutto’s legacy alive.

She said at a reception hosted by Jamshoro union council nazim and PPP leader Lala Rehman Pathan on Tuesday that Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhry ought to be reinstated because Benazir Bhutto had promised to restore him to the highest post when she came to power.

She urged President Asif Ali Zardari to expose murderer of his wife and bring them to justice to end unrest growing among BB’s followers.

She said that she knew nothing about change in return route of Benazir Bhutto’s caravan from Liaquat Bagh and added that security was the responsibility of the government.

Ms Naheed Khan said that she was not aware of any will of Benazir Bhutto and termed her assassination a great loss of millions of people’s hopes.

She said that people in general and PPP jiyalas in particular were anxiously awaiting award of exemplary punishment to the murderers of their supreme leader.

She said that leaders should not keep aloof from workers and remain in contact with them. She rejected drawing room politics and called for solving workers’ problems.

She said earlier in her address at a ceremony at Basant Hall that workers faced identity problem in PPP and said that security threats should not be made a pretext for maintaining distance between workers and leaders.

She said the workers were real assets of the party and demanded that the sacred document of Charter of Democracy should be implemented.

She called workers custodians of the party and urged the government to implement BB’s philosophy. They would not sit quiet till the culprits involved in BB’s assassination were arrested, she said.

Meanwhile, Ms Naheed’s husband Senator Safdar Abbasi who is member of central executive committee of the party, said in answer to journalists’ queries at a reception at the press club hosted by Sindh People’s Youth leader Ahsan Abro that he and his wife had no differences with party leadership.

He said that he had appealed to party leadership to take all decisions with consensus and said that as a member of the CEC he had expressed his reservations on some policy matters, including judicial crisis, which created political instability, and non-implementation of the Charter of Democracy.

He said that workers were real assets of the party and he and workers would try their best to keep the party united. Decisions within the party should be taken through consensus, coordination and in a judicious manner, he said.