PPP ready to take the reins: Zardari

Nawaabshah: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday that repeated ‘experiments’ had thrown the country into turmoil.

Speaking to the media in Nawabshah, the Pakistan People’s Party leader said that only his party had what it takes to run and manage the country’s affairs. “PPP has successfully dealt with every challenge thrown at it in the past… and we are still ready [to run the country’s affairs],” he said.

“First let go of these rulers, then talk to us, then we will show you how to run this country.”

The former president said that there was a crisis of sugar and flour during former military ruler Pervez Musharraf government as well and sugar and flour were being imported. “We ended the crisis within a year of coming to power and started exporting these items,” he maintained.

“Whoever comes against the people’s power, whether he is Sardar or Mir or Pir, everyone should remember that the people’s vote is ours and the time to come belongs to the PPP.”

In a statement a fortnight ago, the veteran politician had warned that some foreign elements were conspiring to disintegrate Pakistan.

“The world wants to break Pakistan,” he said, assuring the workers that PPP will fight against everybody for the sake of the country.

“We want to make Pakistan a successful country for generations to come,” Zardari said and added that a person who is not ready to breathe his last in Pakistan does not have a stake in the decision of the country. “We belong to this land and we will die here,” he had reiterated.