{"id":19666,"date":"2026-06-20T14:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/06\/20\/celebrating-benazir-bhutto-rawalpindi\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T14:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:27:17","slug":"celebrating-benazir-bhutto-rawalpindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2026\/06\/20\/celebrating-benazir-bhutto-rawalpindi\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Benazir Bhutto&#8217;s Legacy in Rawalpindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shahida Rahmani<\/strong> and <strong>Samina Khalid Ghurki<\/strong> paid a heartfelt tribute to <strong>Benazir Bhutto<\/strong> at a prayer gathering organized by the Pakistan Peoples Party Rawalpindi Divisional Women Wing on her birthday. They said <strong>Benazir Bhutto<\/strong>&#8216;s services will always be remembered and highlighted her many steps to bring women into the national mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers including <strong>Shagufta Butt<\/strong>, <strong>Samira Gul<\/strong>, <strong>Hafsa Bukhari<\/strong>, <strong>Saadia Abbasi<\/strong> and <strong>Azra Yunus<\/strong> discussed the landmark laws and initiatives introduced during <strong>Benazir Bhutto<\/strong>&#8216;s tenure, calling the Women Bank, women police stations and other historic measures a lasting gift to Pakistani women. They described recent successes for the party in Gilgit as a consequence of those sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p>The speakers recalled that <strong>Benazir Bhutto<\/strong> consistently championed the cause of the poor and middle classes and sacrificed for democracy, saying those sacrifices will not be wasted. They praised the Bhutto family&#8217;s contributions as foundational to the democratic gains the country now enjoys.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing confidence in the party&#8217;s unity under <strong>Bilawal Bhutto Zardari<\/strong>, the women leaders said the PPP remains the voice of the disadvantaged. They voiced the hope that <strong>Bilawal Bhutto Zardari<\/strong> will become Prime Minister and that his leadership will help address inflation and economic pressures affecting ordinary Pakistanis.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony concluded with special prayers for the soul of Shaheed <strong>Benazir Bhutto<\/strong>, as party workers and women leaders reaffirmed their commitment to continue her work for women and the poor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPP women leaders in Rawalpindi honor Benazir Bhutto, recall her reforms for women and pledge support for Bilawal Bhutto Zardari&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}