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Central Punjab PPP leader pays homage to Benazir

Recorder Report Published June 21, 2023

LAHORE: General Secretary Pakistan Peoples’ Party Centeral Punjab Hassan Murtaza on Tuesday paid tribute to former Prime Minister and Chairperson of Pakistan Peoples’ Party Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto on her 70th birth anniversary and resolved the nation had to end the politics of hatred and anarchy to keep the country united.

In his message issued here in connection with the 70th birthday of the twice Prime Minister of Pakistan Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Murtaza said “terrorists, dictators, and cowards have assassinated her. But, she lives on in the hearts and minds of the people of her country and across the world. In life she was Benazir, in death she is Benazir”, Murtaza said.

He also said it is the need of the hour that we should implement Charter of Democracy signed by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Supreme Leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, in 2006.

However, Murtaza said the legacy of the Charter has been overshadowed by the controversial entry of Imran Khan into the political arena. He said it was the visionary leadership of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto that envisaged policies particularly focusing on women’s rights and empowerment, aiming at their increased participation for the sake of national development. Unfortunately, as a result of political and social apathy towards the mainstreaming of women, we still cannot benefit from the huge potential of these policies.

In order to give practical shape to the vision of Benazir Bhutto PPP started Benazir Income Support Program in 2008, when PPP came in to power after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

General Secretary PPP said that the two-time Prime Minister and leader will forever live in the hearts of the masses. He also honored her struggle for democracy which spans more than thirty years. We remember Shaheed Benazir Bhutto on what would have been her 70th Birthday. She fought for more than thirty years for the restoration of democracy, economic emancipation of the poor, and for spreading the peaceful message of Islam.

Former MPA Sania Kamran said Benazir Bhutto was a politician with international stature adding that she took the country towards progress and prosperity.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2023

PPP Benazir Bhutto Hassan Murtaza

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Ziad Jun 24, 2023 02:00pm
After a five-year investigation, a Swiss court in 2003 found both Benazir and her husband guilty of a huge amount of money laundering, and gave them suspended jail sentences of six months each, and ordered each to pay £8 million to the Pakistan government. A diamond necklace worth £117,000 exposed Benazir’s money laundering trail. She had enriched herself and her husband with kickbacks from a government contract with two Swiss companies, SGS and Cotechna. The money was paid in the British Virgin Islands—to Bomer Finances owned by Asif Zardari and Benazir and received $ 8.2 million, and Nassam Overseas, whose owner is Nasir Husain, Benazir’s brother-in-law, which received $ 3.8 million. In her second term, she appointed her husband as Investment Minister, Chief of Intelligence Bureau and Director General of Federal Investigative Agency. This gave him a monopoly on the country’s gold imports, which netted him a cool $10 million.
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Ziad Jun 24, 2023 02:00pm
After the execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir’s brother, Murtaza fled to Afghanistan, which at the time was under a Socialist Governance backed by the Soviet Union. Murtaza's brand of politics became heavily influenced by Socialism. He created Al Zulfikar, an organization, the sole purpose of which was to avenge the death of the elder Bhutto. In 1981 Murtaza hijacked a Pakistani Airways Jetliner. Over thirteen days, the Jetliner was flown to Afghanistan and finally Syria. Pakistani Major Tariq Rahim, was shot. Afghanistan’s head of Intelligence, Najibullah who later became President of Afghanistan, was in close contact with Murtaza Bhutto during this time. The Hijacking culminated with General Zia being forced to release hundreds of Bhutto supporters who had been languishing in Pakistani jails. The event remains a scar in the history of Pakistan.
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Ziad Jun 24, 2023 02:00pm
Benazir had a 15-bedroom Rockwood Estate in Surrey in England valued at £3.5 million, and she owned four other properties in London. Jeremy Carver, the lawyer of the Pakistan government, in 1998 said there were at least half a dozen international cases of corruption pending against Benazir and Zardari in Switzerland, the US and Pakistan. Zardari became well known as Mr 10 per cent.
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Ziad Jun 24, 2023 02:01pm
In her second term as PM, she appointed her husband as Investment Minister, Chief of Intelligence Bureau and Director General of Federal Investigative Agency. This gave him a monopoly on the country’s gold imports, which netted him a cool $10 million.
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Ziad Jun 24, 2023 02:01pm
John Burns, a journalist of the New York Times, investigated the business transactions of Benazir and her husband, exposing the mammoth scale of their corruption. By 1996, their takings from these deals were estimated at $1.5 billion. In 1996, Transparency International ranked Pakistan as the world’s second most corrupt country.
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Ziad Jun 24, 2023 02:01pm
In the 1990s, during Benazir’s term as PM, GDP declined to 3-4 per cent, poverty rose by 33 per cent and the number of Pakistanis living in absolute poverty doubled.
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