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Asif Zardari promises jobs and better life

Staff Report

MULTAN: The Pakistan People’s Party has planned to combat unemployment, poverty, hunger, exploitation, injustice and high costs once when it comes to power.

Asif Ali Zardari, the party’s central leader, told reports on the phone on Saturday from Dubai that his party had before worked out a strategy to generate and export power to neighbouring countries, but the rulers rejected it, worsening unemployment.

He said his party had given jobs on merit but the military regime sacked people and claimed that his party would reinstate them on their jobs if it came to power. “The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy has launched a peaceful movement against the government and the PPP has supported the alliance,” he said.

He also claimed that his party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz were united on the platform of the ARD but their different principle stands were their political right and that the government had failed to deliver the goods. On the deal between Makhdoom Amin Faheem and the government, Mr Zardari said Mr Faheem could expose the details, but the PPP would not toe the government line. He said his party workers would decide if they wanted those party leaders who abandoned the party to rejoin.

He said people-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan were vital for the peace process, which really began by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who inked the Simla Treaty. Mr Zardari said the Punjab government had asked him not to organise a rally in Lahore on his arrival, but it was his democratic right to do so since the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal was staging countrywide rallies. He paid tribute to Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, a party leader now in jail, and hoped for his release but he fell short of commenting on his party’s stand over the formation of a Seraiki province.

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