RAWALPINDI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) workers on Sunday celebrated Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s birthday and pledged to continue the mission of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto to fight against extremism, dictatorship, poverty and ignorance.

The office-bearers and a handful of party workers gathered at the party office and cut the birthday cake.

PPP City president Amir Fida Paracha said: “The workers wanted Bilawal to enter parliamentary politics and complete the Bhuttos’ mission to give the rights to the voiceless people.”

He criticised the PTI and PAT sit-ins in Islamabad and said instead of helping the people in the flood-affected areas, the leaders of these two parties were working on the agenda of some hidden forces.

He said the PPP believed in the supremacy of parliament and the constitution.

He said the PPP workers used to celebrate the birthday of Mr Bilawal in the past too.

“During the last five years, the party workers did not celebrate the birthday of Mr Bilawal in view of the tragic Liaquat Bagh incident of December 27, 2007, in which former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated,” he said.

Published in Dawn, September 22nd , 2014