Daily Times

LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has said that he may not be from Bhutto’s lineage but Bhutto’s spirit is definitely in him.

Addressing a rally celebrating the 90th birthday of former prime minister Bhutto in Mirpurkhas on Friday, Zardari asserted that PPP’s ideology was given to it by Bhutto. “PPP is the party of labourers; of the poor and down-trodden masses. Our worker demands from us and we give to them. This is what Bhutto taught. You have to fight for your right. We [the leaders] go to the people, people shouldn’t come to us.”

The former president said that “Pakistan faces problems because unqualified leaders were brought to rule the country.”

Zardari lamented that Pakistan’s lack of foreign minister in the past reflected badly on its international affairs.

“They have appointed a foreign minister that speaks English in Punjabi,” mocked the former president.

Criticising former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-N President Nawaz Sharif, he said: “Don’t send us indirect messages thinking we will be intimidated.”

Zardari said that Nawaz should’nt speak of behind the scene secrets, as the ruling party itself is the biggest mystery.

“You (the PML-N) is in the government and behind the scene as well,” said Zardari, adding that he finds it confounding that how come a person incapable of winning a Union Council elections gathers 100,000 votes in general elections.