PPP to protect workers’ rights: Zardari

Islamabad: Former President of Pakistan and President Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians, Asif Ali Zardari has said that the Pakistan Peoples Party is a party of the workers and it will continue to protect the rights of labourers.

President Asif Ali Zardari in his message on the occasion of International Labour Day said that the founding chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto always stood by the workers in their struggle for labour rights and rectified the injustices meted out to them through labour reforms. Asif Ali Zardari said that today due to the worst inflation, the working class is suffering from economic constraints.

He said that the government of the PPP had made the labourers partners in the government-owned industrial enterprises under the Benazir Employees’ Stock Option Scheme.

President Zardari expressed the Party’s resolve to continue solving the problems of the working class on a priority basis after returning to power. He said that the PPP is adhered to the manifesto of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

President Zardari said that Chairman PPP, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari following the footsteps of his grandfather and mother will support the workers’ rights. Asif Ali Zardari asked the labour force of the country to support Bilawal Bhutto Zardari so that their problems could be solved and they achieve their rights.