LARKANA, March 15: Ghinwa Bhutto, chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB), has said that her party will field candidates on all seats in the  upcoming elections.

Only those candidates who were honest, God-fearing and pro-people would be given party tickets, she said while addressing a public meeting outside the Al-Murtaza House here on Friday. The gathering marked the foundation day of the party.

She rejected the notion that a sectarian war was going on in the country and said it was actually a war between the rich and the poor.

The rich had captured all key positions in society and most political parties were also in the hands of the rich who were commanding the poor, she said. The PPP-SB was the only party which truly represented the poor and the downtrodden, she claimed.

She termed the commissioner system a vestige of British colonial rule and said she stood for a system which guaranteed fundamental rights to people without any discrimination.

Neither elections nor power was the party’s destination, it was struggling only to make people masters of their own destinies, she said.

She said the present rulers had gifted people with starvation, unemployment and uncertainty. The PPP-SB had been struggling for the past 18 years for the rights of peasants, labourers, women and the poor. The party enjoyed people’s support who would hopefully continue it in future, she said.

Ms Bhutto said the government had miserably failed to curb terrorism and no one was safe under the prevailing circumstances.

She said that her party would continue fighting against corruption and for the rights of people in line with Mir Murtaza Bhutto’s vision.

Sardar Taj Mohammed Domki president PPP-SB Sindh chapter, Yousuf Patoojo, Ms Seema Rafique, Ms Feroza Lashari, Inayat Hussain, Inayat Umrani and Inam Narejo also spoke on the occasion.