Sindh Minister for Information & Archives and Labour Saeed Ghani on Friday, while paying tribute to the martyrs of the tragedy of October 18 on the occasion of 12th anniversary of the grim incident, said that the tragedies of both December 27 as well as October 18, 2007 were planned by the same wicked and ruthless elements.
Saeed Ghani said that sacrifices of the martyrs of October 18th could never be forgotten. Provincial Information Minister said that Pakistan Peoples Party never bowed down or compromised with a dictator and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto despite having extremely serious threats to her life returned home on October 18th. He said that several leaders and workers of Pakistan People's Party had sacrificed their lives for strengthening democracy in the country.
Saeed Ghani said if suspects of Oct 18 had been exposed and arrested then it could had been easy to reach to those criminals who were behind the extremely gloomy incident of Dec 27th. Provincial Information Minister demanded that the Supreme Court should take notice that how all the accused in this important case had been set free by the judiciary and order re-arrest of all of them, and it should also summon Pervez Musharraf in the courtroom.
He said that after October 18 tragedy, instead of registering a case against the accused on the complaint of the victims' relatives, the then government registered a case on its behalf just to weaken the case.
Provincial Information Minister Saeed Ghani on Friday visited the graves of the martyrs of October 18th tragedy in a cemetery in Azam Basti, and after that he visited the memorial on Sharea Faisal near Karsaz established in memory of the heroes who laid their lives while protecting their leader and placed flowers there.
Special assistants to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Waqar Mehdi, Rashid Rabbani and others were also present on the occasion. Talking to reporters on the occasion, Information Minister Saeed Ghani said that we had been coming here to pay tribute to our martyrs for the last twelve years and the loved ones of the martyrs also accompany us on the occasion. He said that the October 18 terrorist incident was one of the horrific incident of terrorism in the world in which the workers of a peaceful political party were targeted while they were welcoming their beloved leader. Saeed Ghani said 177 of our workers were martyred and about 500 party jiyalas got injured in the horrific incident.
He said that despite authentic information that the life of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto was at risk the then government of dictator Pervez Musharraf and his team did not arrange foolproof security for her.-PR
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