LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali
Zardari arrived in Naudero and Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani reached
Garhi Khuda Bukhsh Bhutto on Monday.
The former
president would stay in Naudero for a couple of days. He would attend
the party’s central executive committee meeting and address a public
meeting on Dec 27 in Garhi Khuda Bukhsh, while Mr Rabbani returned to
Karachi after a brief visit of Bhutto’s mausoleum, according to sources.
Both the leaders had flown in from Karachi on separate helicopters.
Talking
to journalists after laying wreath on Bhuttos’ graves and offering
Fateha, Mr Rabbani said that Senate elections would be held in
accordance with the time frame laid down in the Constitution and
reiterated in unequivocal terms that there was no room in the
Constitution for postponing either Senate polls or general elections.
If
all institutions worked within their constitutional limits, it would
ultimately strengthen the parliament and the country and help establish
reign of the Constitution, he said.
He said the issue of
leakage of in-camera briefing by Chief of Army Staff in Senate had been
referred to the house’s business committee.
About his
speech at the speakers’ conference in Islamabad, Mr Rabbani said that
whatever he had said was nothing new. It had been gleaned from Z.A.
Bhutto’s books but political parties tended to distance themselves from
individual statements and issue well-calculated statements on foreign
policies, he said.
He termed Dec 27 a black day in
history and a tragic moment when the former first woman prime minister
of Muslim world Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. The incident had left
permanent scars on the history of the region, he said.
He
said that Benazir Bhutto’s assassination was similar to his father’s
judicial murder in that both were eliminated under an international
conspiracy.
He accused the elements who did not want to
see Pakistan as a democratic and strong country for murdering Benazir
Bhutto and urged PPP and its progressive workers to make a pledge to
carry forward her mission of strengthening democracy.
Mr
Rabbani complained that justice had not been served to Bhutto family in
any period. Despite the fact that Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf had
violated the Constitution and cases were registered against him, he was
allowed to go.
Earlier, local PPP leaders and Larkana
deputy commissioner Kashif Tipu received the Senate chairman on his
arrival in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto.