Government determined to bring positive change as pledged by Benazir Bhutto: President

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Government is determined to bring positive change to the country as pledged by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.
"Two years ago on this day the tyrants and the extremists killed the Muslim World's first Woman and Pakistan's twice elected Prime Minister. She may have been killed physically but the ideas and ideals of Benazir Bhutto shall never be killed," the president said in his message on the occasion of second anniversary of martyrdom of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.
The President said that her ideas and ideals instilled hope and inspired a generation to lofty aims. These ideals shall always lift the spirit to higher goals, the President said. He said that Shaheed Benazir gave voice to the voiceless, strength to the weak and stirred the muted turbulence of human spirit, adding, she motivated and led the people in the fight for their rights.
Risking her life she returned to Pakistan hoping and promising to "bring change to the country and empower its people," Zardari said. He said the ideal that the people are masters of their destiny and the burning desire to bring change to the country and empower its people still lives and drives the party and her followers.
Giving political ownership to the war on terror, embracing the people of Balochistan through amnesty and the Aghazi Huqooq Balochistan Package, advancing the process of reconciliation and strengthening the federation through the 7th NFC Award and extricating the poor from abject poverty and empowering women through the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) are some of the measures adopted to bring positive change to the country and empower the people, the President said.
"On this occasion let us pledge that the PPP will continue its forward march to strengthen democracy and emancipate the marginalised and will not be deterred by conspiracies against it or the hurdles created in its way," he said. The President said the PPP will employ the power of democracy and constitutionalism as its weapons to fight it adversaries and foil all conspiracies against it.
He said that the party survived even after the judicial murder of its founder Chairman and the country's first directly elected Prime Minister Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the exile and subsequent assassination of its second Chairperson Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and the plethora of accusations and witch hunting of its leaders and workers. He said that on this occasion our thoughts go to all the martyrs who laid down their lives and many hundreds more who were maimed and wounded while protecting the life of their leader.