Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari paid tribute to former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer on the sixth anniversary of his martyrdom. In a statement issued, he said, “Brave Shaheed Salmaan Taseer proved that this country is for all and protection for weak and vulnerable people, including the minorities, is a sacred duty of every nationalist Pakistani who follows the ideology of the country’s founding fathers.”
He added in the statement, “Shaheed Salmaan Taseer stood like a rock against the misuse of laws, meant to protect the sanctity of every religion, by bigots and hypocrite elements bent upon to settle their personal scores against weaker opponents. Bigotry and extremism were breeding terrorism and people of Pakistan should get rid of these maladies and establish a truly egalitarian Muslim majority society standing tall as a model nation in the Islamic as well as the modern world.”
“Certain elements want to hold people hostage at gunpoint by exploiting certain laws but they don’t know that in the presence of PPP and followers like Shaheed Salmaan Taseer their nefarious designs won’t succeed in Pakistan,” he stated.
