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PPP celebrates BB’s birth anniversary today

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is celebrating the 57th birth anniversary of the party slain chairperson, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, on Monday (today).

The party has planned to organise different functions, seminars and events shedding lights on the life and achievements of its late chairperson, who was the first ever woman Prime Minister of the Muslim World.

The party would also hold Quran Khani and arranges Langars in different cities of the country. Meanwhile, Speaker National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza in statement said that Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was a visionary and a stateswoman fought for the downtrodden and oppressed society and longed for a forward-looking Pakistan, where women were not subjected to humiliation, torture and treated with respect as equal partners to progress and prosperity.

Dr Fehmida Mirza said that Mohtarma had the courage to challenge worst dictatorship of the times when compared with other contemporary politicians.

The speaker said that today as the nation finds itself encircled by challenges, threats and pressures, never witnessed ever before, and while we all put in our respective efforts to steer the country out of the present quagmire, we need Mohtarma Benazir now more than ever before.
Source: Business Recorder
Date:6/21/2010