F.P. Report
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari attended an event in connection with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan at the Lahore High Court Bar. In his address, he thanked the Bar for giving him the opportunity to speak to the lawyers’ fraternity.
He said that the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court are the crime scenes of the murder of Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Two generations have repeatedly come here to ask for justice. The murderer was Zia ul Haq, the judges of the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court along with the lawyers, politicians and bureaucrats who played the role of the facilitators.
Bilawal said that he is grateful to Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and his brother judges for conducting a hearing of the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Presidential Reference that had been sent by President Zardari twelve years ago. When our judges wash the stains that colour their own institutions, not only will they provide justice to us and our Jiyalas but also write in stone that no other Prime Minister is treated in such a way in the future, be it of the PML-N or the PTI.
This is the only way the country can prosper. We are the fifth-largest population in the world and our people are extremely hardworking and have shown that despite the destitute resources, we can compete with the rest of the world. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had united the Muslim Ummah and conducted a meeting of the OIC in this very city, Lahore.
Today, we are witnessing the barbaric treatment of our Palestinian brothers and sisters. The same treatment had been meted out to them earlier, but we had ‘leaders’ at the time. He made them realise the significance of oil, since he possessed the farsightedness of a true visionary. As per the efforts of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the Palestinian cause was clubbed with the providence of oil, and an embargo was set.
Then, would we consider each and every leader involved in this decision, not dying a natural death, a mere coincidence? Pakistan was the first atomic power of the Muslim world. It was said that it is an ‘Islamic Bomb’. However, this could not deter Shaheed Quaid-e-Awam and make him compromise on his beliefs and principles.
