Pakistan Peoples Party Rawalpindi Workers Alliance held a cake cutting ceremony at a local hotel to mark Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s 98th birthday, bringing together party leaders and workers to recall his political legacy and national contributions.
Speakers at the event praised Bhutto for broadening political participation by extending the vote to ordinary citizens and for forging the 1973 constitution that established a federal framework, parliamentary system and guaranteed fundamental rights. They credited his leadership with uniting the nation and laying the foundations of a strategic defence policy through the early nuclear programme.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was also remembered by speakers for addressing what they described as the challenge of Qadianism and for hosting the Islamic summit during his brief but consequential tenure. Those remarks were delivered by Workers Alliance head Banaras Chaudhry, PPP Germany spokesman Amjad Butt, Peoples Lawyers Forum divisional president Syed Masood Shah Advocate, former information secretary and Naib Nazim Nasir Mir, and the Workers Alliance spokesperson Raja Zaheer Iqbal, among others.
Other attendees who joined the ceremony included former councillor Munirallah Butt, Falak Sher Lodhi, Choudhry Safdar Chohan, Yad Mir Khan, Mohsin Raza, Mazhar Hussain, Malik Azhar Khan, Tanveer Khan, Jahangir Butt, Malik Nadeem Awan, Anwar Khan Jadun, Mian Altaf Butt, Choudhry Akram, Sadiya Abbasi, Kausar Altaf, Satti Shabana Ilyas, Nasreen Bibi and Salma Bibi along with a large turnout of local PPP activists and leaders.
Party leaders referred to historical narratives such as the Bayan al-Marsous and said that the nation benefited from Bhutto’s strategic foresight. They also expressed confidence that Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will continue to voice public aspirations and work to alleviate poverty, rising prices, unemployment and divisive politics.
The programme concluded with collective cake cutting to mark the founder chairman’s birthday and a communal recitation of Fatiha for the martyrs, as party workers reaffirmed their commitment to the principles they attribute to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
