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KARACHI, Jan 10 (APP):Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Chair at the University of Karachi organized the event at KU Audio Visual Center to pay tribute to Pakistan’s first female prime minister.
Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto always thought for Pakistan and endured imprisonment for her beliefs and she never let her ego take precedence in her politics.
These views were expressed by the Advisor to the Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Najmi Alam, while addressing a seminar on Friday regarding Benazir Bhutto’s 17th death anniversary.
Najmi Alam said that Benazir Bhutto should not be viewed just through the lens of the People’s Party but as a politician and an individual.
He further said that student union elections should be held as they allow the middle class to enter politics. Educated and middle-class leadership requires student union elections, he observed.
The provincial minister for Women’s Development Sindh Shaheena Sher Ali said that looking at the life of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto makes one proud to be a woman. She endured many hardships for Pakistan. Shaheed BB wanted to restore democracy in Pakistan and end dictatorship, she said.
KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood Iraqi said that personalities are mortal, but their ideas live on and guide us from darkness to light. A visionary leader empowers people and provides awareness about upcoming challenges.
He mentioned that very few leaders in Pakistan have made history, including Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto. Shaheed Benazir Bhutto always advocated for democracy, dialogue, reconciliation and the supremacy of the Constitution, regardless of the difficulties.
The KU Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Prof Dr Shaista Tabassum said that Benazir Bhutto was a visionary leader who wanted to restore true democracy in Pakistan. “Democracy is essential for correcting any system because systems formed based on public opinion are successful.”
The KU Director of the SMBBC Muhammad Ibrahim Sheikh said that Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was a democratic-minded leader because she closely observed her father Z. A. Bhutto’s politics.