I am pleased to learn that Sindh Information Department is bringing out special supplements on the eve of thirty first martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto today to highlight the glorious successes of our martyred leader in serving the cause of the people and the country.
I wish to compliment the provincial government of Sindh, the Advisor to Chief Minister Mr. Jameel Soomro and all those who have made it possible. Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto awakened the people and led the collective national effort to give the country a unanimous Constitution that was federal democratic and parliamentary character to keep the nation united. That Constitution was distorted and mutilated by successive dictatorships. Today on the eve of his 31st martyrdom anniversary it is most reassuring that the nation is poised to restore the democratic Constitution by removing from it the distortions introduced by dictatorship.
The restoration of the Constitution is indeed a befitting tribute to the leader of masses who sacrificed his life for the people, democracy and the Constitution. On this day while paying tributes to our Shaheed leader I also wish to thank all those who made possible the nation's march to restore the democratic Constitution and empower the people and the Parliament. Inculcating in the people the belief that political power belonged to them was a singular achievement of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as no dictatorship since then has been able to rob the masses of the power of this realization.
Shaheed Zulfiar Ali Bhutto led the fight against dictatorship from the front and willingly laid down his life for the cause to join the ranks of immortals. Leaders like him are born only once in generations. It I is indeed a lasting tribute to his memory that Bhutto and Bhuttoism still lives in the hearts and minds of the people and, from his grave, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto haunts the enemies of democracy. Reverberations of "Jeeay Bhutto" still send shivers in the enemies of democracy.
Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto believed in dialogue and negotiations as the principal instruments to resolve most complex national most complex national and international political issues. He demonstrated it, at the national level, by given the country a unanimous Constitution and, at the international level, by recovering the territory lost in the 1971 war, bringing back tens of thousands of prisoners of war and preventing trial of our military officers to protect the name and honor of the country.
The years of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto will always be remembered as years that witnessed the nation filled with vitality and driven by a sense of purpose and shared destiny. He will be remembered as "Pakistan's modernizer" who left deep footprints in the sands of history. I hope that the special supplements will highlight the great achievements of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto at the national and international level to make Pakistan strong and prosperous and thereby inspire the people particularly the younger generation to loftier aims. I wish the Sindh Information Department success in its endeavors.