PPP-SB warns govt against coercion

Published August 9, 2004

KARACHI, Aug 8: Chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party (Shaheed Bhutto), Ghinwa Bhutto, has warned that coercion, either by the state to contain terrorism, violence and anarchy, or other elements to get their problems solved, might lead to the country's total destruction.

Talking to various delegations of her party's office-bearers in Sindh who called on her at 70-Clifton here on Sunday, she apprehended that the super power might take advantage of the government's failure in bringing the situation under control.

She told the party colleagues that it was on the top of the PPP-SB's agenda that peaceful and democratic ways be pursued to prevent the country from heading towards its own destruction. Ms Ghinwa Bhutto was of the view that the draft contempt law exposed the weakness of the government.

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