Pakistan PeopleÂ’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, hinting at President Pervez MusharrafÂ’s ouster in the near future, said on Monday that the next president of the country will be from the PPP and that the President House will soon resound with slogans of jeay Bhutto.Addressing a gathering of PPP workers at GovernorÂ’s House, Zardari said the PPP would soon install its candidate, possibly someone like Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, in the Presidency.
He said the PPP had given innumerable sacrifices for the cause of democracy in the country. Zardari, blaming anti-democratic forces for the assassination of former PPP chairwoman Benazir Bhutto, said the PPP would avenge her death by changing the system and restoring true democracy in the country. He added that democracy would be restored through dialogue and national reconciliation.
Carnival: In a veiled reference to the lawyers’ long march, Zardari said it was a “mere carnival” and who could possibly know the politics of long marches better than the PPP. He said no one should underestimate the strength of the PPP, as the PPP knows well how a movement is launched.
He said this very Governor House was the place from where he was arrested when usurpers of democracy toppled the PPP government Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer told the gathering that he had opened the doors of GovernorÂ’s House for the masses. He said the arrival of Zardari to Lahore had infused a new vigour in the party workers.