Bilawal vows to continue promoting tolerance, harmony.

KARACHI -- Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardar has said that growing trends of intolerance in the society not only are posing dangerous threats to peace and harmony in the society, but also hindering social, political, and economic development.

He called upon the sane segments of society to play their role in promoting tolerance in the country as well as in the world.

In his message on International Tolerance Day being observed under the aegis of the United Nations, the PPP Chairman said his party was the torch-bearer of tolerance in Pakistan.

'Right from the foundation of the PPP, its leadership, as well as workers, have been the advocates of tolerance,' he said quoting the UN's basic theme of International Tolerance Day, 'Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human.'

Bilawal further said PPP had been trying to build a...

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