Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Movement for Restoration of Democracy
Wednesday, 26 December 2012 15:31
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ISLAMABAD: The fifth martyrdom anniversary of former Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (BB) will be observed on December 27 (tomorrow).
Radio Pakistan will broadcast special audio/video marathon transmission titled "Zinda Hey Bibi" live from Larkana, reported Radio Pakistan.
The transmission will commence at 11:55 a.m and will continue till 8:00 p.m from the entire network of Radio Pakistan and its website.
All channels of Radio Pakistan will also broadcast special programmes from 07:10 am to 11:55 am and from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm.
These programmes would focus on the achievements and the vision of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.
Renowned PPP leaders, prominent personalities and analysts will threw light on the life and philosophy of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto.
Pakistan Peoples Party has finalized arrangements for the main function in this regard at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh.
A public meeting will be held at the mausoleum of the Shaheed leader.
Special functions will be held across the country to mark the ...
As restrictions on press and media were intensified and persecution of political activist increased Benazir Bhutto realized that the only way to fight General Ziaul Haq’s regime was to unite with a section of the opposition Pakistan National Alliance (PNA).
Talks with PNA were successful and the result was the Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD), widely supported by people of Pakistan but brutally repressed by the junta.
MRD included sections of Pakistani society that were ...
In the fall of 1980, the Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) approached the Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) for an alliance. Benazir Bhutto was outraged. She thought that her father's friends and allies should not consider negotiating with the PNA. She saw them as opportunists who had cashed in on her father's downfall and death and who now wanted an alliance only because General Ziaul Haq didn't want them.
Her mother, Nusrat Bhutto, looked at the offer from a different ...
On February 6, 1981, the leaders of various parties signed a charter - the Movement to Restore Democracy. The announcement set off demonstrations and violence against the General Ziaul Haq's government in Karachi and Quetta.
At Karachi University, a student leader who had supported Zia was killed, and twelve of his followers were injured in a bombing. Earlier in the week he had been involved in a fight with students who supported the Bhuttos and ...
General Ziaul Haq was apparently trying to build the same sort of flimsy case against Benazir and Nusrat Bhutto that he had built against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. The loyalty of the PPP members to the Bhuttos speaks highly of their integrity as party workers. Benazir Bhutto was arrested on March 8, 1981, and after five days in Karachi Central Jail, she was put in solitary confinement in Sukkur jail.
According to Amnesty International, Benazir Bhutto and her ...
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