Daily Times

LARKANA: Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) seven recently elected senators visited the Bhutto Mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bux on Friday after being elected to the Senate of Pakistan.

They included Dr Sikander Mandhro, Imamuddin Shouqeen, Muhammad Ali Shah Jamote, Anwar Laldin, Rukhsana Zuberi, Krishna Kolhi and Quratulain Mari. They offered prayers and laid floral wreaths at the graves of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto.

While talking to media, Dr Sikander Mandhro said that they were thankful to PPP leadership who awarded them with the party’s tickets and got workers like them elected to the Senate. He said that their first priority was to serve masses across Pakistan.

He said that it was the dream of the PPP martyrs that development must take place, poor be able to have three times food, peace be maintained and there should be justice in the country. He said one dictator deprived us of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and another snatched Benazir Bhutto from the people of Pakistan. He said we cannot forget our Shaheeds adding that we will convert our sorrow into our power.

Replying to a question Mandhro said that no horse-trading has been done. He said we don’t give media any importance about PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari’s alleged involvement in horse-trading. Dr Mandhro further said that they are workers and are bound by the decisions made by their leadership.

He said that we are electing our Senate chairman to change the fate of poverty-stricken people of the country and to serve them even better. He said priorities of capitalists and jaagirdars are different which you are seeing today as they are always thinking of enhancing their business empires and not for the alleviation of poverty and resolution of issues face by the nation.

He said we need such people who strengthen democracy and work for the provincial autonomy adding that we salute Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani. A large number of party activists were also present on the occasion who showered rose petals over them and presented them with traditional Sindhi gifts. Aijaz Leghari, Khair Muhammad Shaikh, Noordin Abro, Ahad Jamal Dawoodpoto, Arshad Shah Rashidi and others were also present on the occasion.

Published in Daily Times, March 10^th 2018.