LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) demanded accountability of former President Pervez Musharraf on Monday for violating Article 6 of the constitution.
PPP urged ‘merciless’ accountability of dictators and vowed that the country cannot sustain martial law or NRO. The political party called on immediate hearing of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto ‘murder’ case and asked to consider it as judicial murder.
The demands were put forward during a seminar held at Begum Nusrat Bhutto Hall in Larkana.
Sindh Food Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro claimed that Hafeez Pirzada, Mumtaz Bhutto and Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi conspired against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. He considered people who did not filed petition in the Shariat Court as ‘anti-bhutto’. He said that if apology could be made on ‘legalizing’ martial law then same should be followed for ‘Bhutto’ murder case.
Sindh Chief Minister praised Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto that he never bowed his head. He said that the party would be struggling to acquire declaration of his ‘murder’ as a judicial murder.
Nisar Khuhro said that the ‘Sharif’ government would have lost over Panama case if PPP had not introduced 18th amendment in the constitution. He said former President Asif Ali Zardari had spent 11 years in jail but never complaint “Mujhay kiyoon jail main dala”
MNA Faryal Talpur praised the devotion of people for Bhutto and said that dictators had not been successful against PPP. She said that the Bhutto ‘murder’ case awaits justice.
PPP Parliamentarian Central Information Secretary Nafeesa Shah questioned that who started “Changa Manga” politics, who made IJI and who conspired against the government of Benazir Bhutto. She said that Nawaz League did not considered sanctity of vote at the time when it conspired against PPP’s democratic government. Senator Krishna Kolhi said that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto initiated nuclear project in the country. Moreover, a consensus was achieved by members of PPP that it would not support a delay in upcoming General Elections. The party expressed its commitment to defend and strengthen democracy in the country.
Published in Daily Times, April 3rd 2018.
