Tribute paid to slain PPP leader

Former president and co-chairperson of Pakistan People's Party Asif Ali Zardari has urged his party workers to be prepared to stand up against a possible conspiracy to amend the constitution for slashing power of provinces. He said this in a written statement read out in 12th death anniversary of a slain PPP leader, former minister Syed Qamar Abbas at Peshawar Press Club on Saturday. The provincial president Engr Mohammad Humayun Khan presided over the event while other leaders including Rahim Dad Khan, Nisar Safdar, Liaquat Shabab, Syed Ayub Shah, Tahis Abbas also paid rich tributes to Qamar Abbas.
Zardari while recalling the services of Qamar Abbas, he had rendered for welfare of the poor people, urged the party workers to fulfil the mission of the martyred leaders and prepared themselves for another practical struggle to save democracy from loaming sheds of dictatorship. He said that a selected government had been imposed through rigging on the nation and the parliament was disgraced through a conspiracy to pave way for dictatorship, adding that all kinds of efforts were under way to against 18th amendment, NFC award, provincial autonomy and for setting up of technocratic government.
The former president's statement said that the people who had struggled for rule of law and condemned the menace of terrorism were described as traitors, adding that whatever scheme was devised but PPP would take firms stand to face such hardships for rule of law, supremacy of constitution. The PPP, he said would unveil the people who were hatching conspiracies from behind the rulers. He urged the workers to take a lesson from the slain people like Qamar Abbas, step up their efforts for strengthening of democracy. He also paid tributes to family of the slain leader for its long association with the party despite many hardships.
The other ppp leaders also paid glowing tributes to Syed Qamar Abbas and vowed to fulfill his mission for the party and the poor people. They also came hard on the government policies and asked the workers to prepare themselves for possible general elections in near future. The participants also offered fateha for the departed soul.