Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir based People’s Political Party (PPP) today convened an emergency meeting to condole the untimely demise of Begum Nusrat Bhutto (widow of former P.M of Pakistan Mr. Zulfikhar Ali Bhutto).
A high level meeting of Bhutto Memorial Trust (BMT) and PPP was held under chairmanship of Engineer Hilal Ahmad War to pay homage and tributes to the departed soul at PPP headquarters in Srinagar, Kashmir. Paying rich tributes to the late Mrs. Bhutto, the executive members elucidated Z.A. Bhutto’s vision of a united Muslim World, said Engineer Hilal War, Chairman PPP. Begum Bhutto rendered many sacrifices in the form of lives of her family members time and again to ensure Pakistan became democratically, economically and militarily strong, said War adding it is the American CIA that hatched a conspiracy with anti-democratic forces in Pakistan and engineered Mr. Z. A Bhutto’s judicial murder. But his voice lives in our hearts and will keep guiding us through and through.PPP Chief demanded the reopening of the Shaheed Z.A. Bhutto’s murder case, so that the perpetrators are brought to book. Mr. War said Bhutto created thousands of Bhutto’s after his assassination. He was such a strong inspiration that many Bhutto’s were born as a result of his martyrdom, said War. War said Bhutto not only threw challenge to the anti-democratic forces in Pakistan but he was a thorn in the flesh of the anti-Muslim forces worldwide. The anti-Muslim forces in the world never wanted to see Muslims unite and as a result they saw Bhutto as the biggest threat, and that is why they connived with various forces within the country to liquidate him and one of the only person to back him through thick and thin was his wife Begum Nusrat Bhutto said Engineer Hilal War.
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The speakers emphasized that the concept of Greater Pakistan floated by Bhutto and his Kashmir Policy for realization of right of self-determination for struggling people of Jammu and Kashmir were and are the source of inspiration for the political and armed activists of Kashmir Liberation Movement. The participants of the meeting urged the Government of Pakistan to formulate a Kashmir Policy in accordance with the letter and spirit of Bhutto’s Kashmir Policy. The participants also disfavored and disapproved the proposed idea of showing any flexibility by government of Pakistan with regard to settlement of Kashmir Dispute. Mr. War said that the late PPP leader was the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear programme and his agricultural and industrial reforms laid the foundations of the Pakistan’s prosperity.
Begum Nusrat Bhutto was a thinker, a friend of the poor, downtrodden and oppressed. She always stressed her party workers to rededicate themselves to the ideals of Bhutto to tell the world that Bhutto still lives in the hearts and minds of the people and, from his grave, haunts the enemies of democracy.†In his message, PPP Supremo, Hilal Ahmad War said, “I urge the youth of Kashmir to come forward and strengthen the People’s Political Party (PPP) and bring about a visible change. I am confident they can. They will.†“On this occasion I urge the party workers to rededicate themselves to the ideals of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.†Qaid –e-Awam was a friend of the poor and oppressed and a fearless thinker He refused to bow before superpowers. “In a span of thirty years she bore the gash of Benazir Bhutto and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as well as her sons who laid down their lives fighting for the cause. Their sacrifices have made me, my party and the people of Kashmir proud.