NewsApr 04 , 2016
Z.A. Bhutto believed power belongs to people: Zardari
ISLAMABAD: Former president and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari has said that Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto believed that power belongs to the people.
“Today ‘we reiterate our pledge that we will not allow any individual or institution to usurp the power that belongs to the people and people alone,” Asif Zardari said in a message issued here on the eve of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s 88th birth anniversary.
“On the eve of the 88th birth anniversary of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, I urge the people particularly the youth to study the political philosophy of the country’s first directly elected Prime Minister with a view to drawing inspiration for overcoming the myriad social, economic and political challenges facing the country today,” PPP Spokesperson Senator Farhatullah Babar quoted Asif Zardari as saying.
“PPP will not permit the fanatics to usurp that power in the name of religion. We will also not allow any individual or institution to usurp this power on any pretext whatsoever,” said Zardari.
He said Shaheed Bhutto gave the country a unanimous Constitution. “It envisages that the power to make or amend the Constitution and the laws on behalf of the people rests with the Parliament and Parliament alone,” he said.
He further said that the judiciary has the powers to review the laws made by the parliament on the touchstone of the Constitution but it cannot make laws on its own. And the executive has to implement those laws without interference.
“Today on the eve of the birth anniversary of Shaheed Bhutto we reiterate our pledge to stoutly protect this Constitutional scheme of things,” Zardari said, adding, ‘on this occasion I should also like to say that the PPP believes that corruption is a scourge that must be eliminated’.
However, he said, for far too long only the representatives of the people have been painted black in the name of corruption.
“Selective accountability, sacred cow syndrome, double standards and using corruption for political re-engineering are the worst forms of corruption. It must be resisted. It will be.”
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