ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party’s Senior Vice Chairman stunned everyone outside the Parliament yesterday when he said, “I call upon the people not to pay electric bills if they do not get regular power supply.”
Breaking a 5-month silence for being ignored for the post of premiership by party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Amin Fahim, said “the Pakistan People’s Party belongs to Bhuttos and not Zardaris.”
Fahim is still the president of Pakistan People’s Party (Parliamentarian) as registered by the Election Commission.
Calling for the restoration of democracy and restitution of judges, he said “the PPP struggled and offered great sacrifices but at present the party is drifting from its basic principles.”
Meanwhile, tomorrow will be the birthday of Benazir Bhutto. A strong anti-Zardari faction of the PPP led by Amin Fahim, Aitzaz Ahsan, Naheed Khan, Sen. Safdar Abbasi, leader of the house in the Senate, Raza Rabbani, and many other diehard supporters have announced plans to hold a public meeting at Liaquat Garden, where Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Dec. 27, 2007, while Zardari will supervise a blood donation ceremony at Naudero, the hometown of the Bhuttos.
