ISLAMABAD, Aug 13: The country can be saved from internal and external dangers only through democracy and addressing the problems of poverty and unemployment of the teeming masses.

This was stated by former prime minister and chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party, Benazir Bhutto, in her message on Independence Day, August 14. "I wish to compliment all Pakistanis living within the country and abroad," Ms Bhutto said.

The former premier said: "Let us therefore on this day rededicate ourselves to the principles of democracy, human rights and economic opportunities for all. Let us on this day resolve that we will not accept the perverted logic of the rulers that the country, its resources and economic opportunities belong only to them and their children to the exclusion of the toiling and teeming masses".