HYDERABAD, Nov 4: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said that followers of Quaid-i-Awam are the real wealth of the party. She said that their strength and fortitude in defending the noble principles of party had given the people of Pakistan hope for a better future.

In her message read at an Eid Millan party hosted by Aftab Ahmed Khanzada, member of the Sindh council of the party, and Sikandar Hayat, president of the Hyderabad chapter of the People’s Engineering Forum, on Saturday, she said: “I am happy that the Pakistan People’s Party is celebrating the joyous occasion of Eid”.

She said: “As we continue our struggle to restore democracy, we are faced with both trials and tribulations".

She expressed confidence that with cohesion and perseverance, the party would surmount the most daunting obstacles in the way of democracy.

She said that the past seven years had been of severe hardship for the people of Pakistan as poverty, crime and inflation reached an all time high.

She said that the forces of tyrannical dictatorship conspired to subjugate people by denying the true popular leadership to once against take the helm and steer Pakistan towards prosperity.

She said that it was unfortunate that she was unable to be with partymen at this time but looked forward to celebrating the next Eidul Fitr with them.

She said: “Today we are confronting the challenges of terrorism, extremism, militancy, poverty, unemployment, usurpation of provincial rights and denial of basic necessities like Roti, Kapra Aur Makaan”.

She said: “The PPP believes Islam is our religion, democracy is our politics, social democracy is our economics and all power in this world rests with the people”.

She said that Quaid-i-Awam sacrificed his life for the sake of federalism, democracy, egalitarianism and he gave his life for the people.

She said that the martyrs of the party gave their lives so that a brighter day would dawn for the downtrodden.

"I consider it the duty and responsibility of our party and of every follower of Quaid-i-Awam, including myself, not to rest until the rights of the people and provinces are restored to them and people can live in dignity and honour and without hunger and discrimination", she concluded.

The leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, was the chief guest on the occasion.