It
is a birthright too often snatched at the point of the gun from the citizens by
the very men who are to guard and defend us. This can stop to enable the people
and the country to march with confidence and courage, with pride and dignity,
with progress and prosperity into the twenty first century.
Pakistan is a great Federation.
Its multilingual, multicultural society is its strength. Its sons and daughters
are its true assets, the bright face of its future, the promise of all our
tomorrows.
The Pakistan Peoples Party is the only Federal, democratic and equal opportunity
Party that can guarantee to our great people a great future. The PPP worker is
selfless and committed to the values of Faith, freedom, fundamental human
rights, family values and a wholesome society based on the rule of law and human
dignity.
The founding principle of the Party Islam is our religion places a
responsibility on each PPP supporter to reach out in a spirit of accommodation
and tolerance to all faiths, to prevent the state from interfering in the
religious rights of the citizens (which breeds sectarianism) and to treat people
of all faiths with respect enabling them to enjoy religious freedom and equality
before the law.
The second principle of the PPP ideology is that democracy is our policy. The
PPP commitment to freedom and fundamental rights, including freedom from hunger
and want, is written in the blood of its martyrs and in the red marks of lashes
on the back of its workers. It is written in the suffering and sacrifice of its
leaders the greatest of whom was Quaid e Awam. He faced the gallows refusing to
bow before tyranny defending the human rights of our citizens to the last of his
breath.