Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said that democracy and representative rule is the only way forward to secure the country's interests. In his message on the 'black day' in the country's political history when a dictator overthrew Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the Prime Minister said "the step plunged the country into darkness of martial law for eleven long years".
"Had the people's will been respected and their government allowed to serve them, Pakistan must have become politically and economically a great power, both in the region and beyond," he said. Gilani said the multiple challenges facing the country today owe themselves to lack of continuity of the democratic system. "No nation can aspire to have any role at the regional and global level unless its institutions are strong, which is, otherwise, a function of strong democracy," he said.
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