Nation was missing sagacious leadership of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari - Press Release issued by Pakistan People's Party.

Karachi -- June 20, 2020 (PPI-OT)

Following is the text of press release issued by Pakistan People's Party (PPP)

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Chairman Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that nation was missing sagacious leadership of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto when the country is facing extraordinary internal and external challenges in the backdrop of COVID-19, locust attacks, inflation, unemployment and a nose-diving economy where national growth rate has decreased to minus level in the country.

In his message on the 67th birthday of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the PPP Chairman said that extraordinary challenges and difficult times were the actual litmus tests of the leadership and she always succeeded overcoming such crises and finally embraced martyrdom fighting the enemies of the country.

He said that as the first elected woman Prime Minister of the Muslim world Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto left innumerable and ineradicable imprints and impact on Pakistan's politics, economy, society and the defence vision.

"Restoration of 1973 Constitution in its original form, transfer of power to the Parliament, provincial autonomy, NFC Award, identity to the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, representation for women and minorities among other marginalized and weak segments at every forum, programmes for poverty alleviation, projects for development and welfare of people, and elimination of extremism and terrorism and different other steps are in fact, the result of life-long struggle of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto," he added.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto continued her struggle despite loss of her great father and two brothers for the people's rights fighting against the two brutal dictators finally defeating them through peaceful political agitation.

He said that thoughts and vision of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto were still the actual...