Ghinwa, Sanam have no qualms against Bilawal

NAUDERO—Chairperson PPP Shaheed Bhutto Group Ghinwa Bhutto on Monday underlined that we have no objection whatsoever of 19-year old Bilawal Bhutto becoming Chairman PPP.
While talking to a private TV, Chairperson PPP Shaheed Bhutto Group Ghinwa Bhutto said that the decision to elect Bilawal as Chairman of PPP was taken by his father Asif Ali Zardari.
We have had political differences with Bhutto family but in this hour of crisis we don’t want to indulge ourselves in more chaos, she maintained. She further added that we are deeply grieved over the death of Benazir Bhutto.
Sanam Bhutto, the younger sister of slain Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto has endorsed all the decisions, including appointment of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as new PPP chairman.
In a statement issued here on Monday, Sanam Bhutto said she believed that the resolution of the issue of leadership in accordance with the will of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed had not merely saved the party from a leadership crisis but would also strengthen it in future.
“ In this moment of intense grief, with tears still in my eyes, I want to state clearly that I am proud of my sister’s wisdom, and feel honoured to be part of her decisions. Even in my personal life, I have respected and accepted the advice she gave me . To me she was like a father”, she maintained.
“ I endorse the decisions taken by the PPP on December 30 in accordance with the will of my sister. I have never been in active politics, but like all of you, I have always behind my sister’s every political decision”, she added.
Senator Asif Ali Zardari, Co-Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party has condemned the arrests of thousands of PPP workers across the country and their inhuman torture in police stations and unofficial torture cells and demanded their immediate release. In a statement Monday he said that continued torture and victimization of already traumatized Party workers was brought with grave dangers.
The PPP Co-Chairman said that while the Party is going into elections despite being in a state of shock to save the federation. However, the undemocratic forces have started hunting down the workers of PPP to create chaos to run away from elections. The Party will not let the regime seen away from polls, he said.
Asif Ali Zardari also demanded immediate release of all the arrested Party workers. He asked the regime to find out the arsonists and looters as the Party workers never indulge in such activities and mourned the martyrdom of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed in peaceful manner.
The Party Co-Chairman also directed district Presidents of the Party to forward to Naudero House the names of all Party workers arrested and tortured by the security agencies.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has constituted a three-member committee to draft a resolution to be sent to the United Nations demanding setting up of an expert commission to probe into the Assassination of former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto.
The PPP sources told Online that the three members of the committee are Senator Latif Khoso, former Federal Minister, Begum Abida Hussein, and Ms Bhutto’s legal advisor, Senator Farooq H Naik.
The committee will complete the draft of the resolution within a day or two, which will later be sent to UN, the sources said and added that the resolution will demand of the UN to constitute a team of international experts to investigate into the assassination of Ms Bhutto in line with the probe into murder of the slain Lebanese Premier Rafiq Al-Hariri.—Agencies