Dictators Nurture Extremists For Survival

Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 12:54 pm

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani have said that July 5 will always be remembered as one of the darkest days in the history of the country.
Dictators Nurture Extremists For Survival
The day spawned tyranny, oppression and militancy and dismantled the Constitution and democratic institutions, they said in their messages on July 5.

In his message on July 5 President Zardari said the dismantling of democratic structures that began on July 5, 1977 reminds how one military dictator nurtured extremists for his political survival and how another dictatorship exploited the same extremists by running with the hare and hunting with the hound again for perpetuating himself in power.

“Let us vow to banish from the Constitution all undemocratic insertions made by the dictators from time to time ,” he said.

The President said that scared of the popular appeal of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto the dictator sought to create an artificial constituency by deliberately promoting religious extremism and privatizing jehad and in the process destroyed the nation’s fabric.

July 5 will be remembered as the day on which seeds of deadly Taliban and Al Qaeda were sown by a dictator that first plunged the world into chaos and is now haunting Pakistan.

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani in his message said it was on July 5 1977 that the democratically elected government was overthrown by a military dictator.

He said the Government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had provided confidence to the masses to face challenges with courage and fortitude.

He said the military dictator suspended the constitution that had been unanimously passed in the National Assembly by all the political parties of Pakistan.

Dictators Nurture Extremists For Survival

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