Bilawal directs party workers to mobilise youth

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday directed party workers to mobilise youth and revive party’s ‘study circles’ to educate youth in the democratic political struggle of the country.

Talking to party workers at Zardari House, the PPP chairman said, “The party’s heritage of democratic and political struggle is a national treasure that needs to be passed on to the youth on one hand and educate the younger generation in the choices available to us as a nation to move forward on the other.”
PPP’s Spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar said that on the third day of the chairman visit to the capital, Bilawal met party office bearers of Nankana Sahib and Kasur districts. A day before, he met the city and district chapters of Faisalabad and the leadership of the provincial chapter of the party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, besides holding individual meetings with senior party leaders to abreast himself with the latest situation. Faryal Talpur, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Mian Manzoor Watto, Sherry Rehman, Nadeem Afzal Chan, Chaudhry Manzoor, Fouzia Habib and Shehla Raza were present at the occasion.
Farhatullah Bahar said the youth is the hope of this country and the future belongs to youth. “Our past two chairmen also belonged to the youth when they took over the responsibilities to guide and lead the party from the front and by personal example,” the PPP’s spokesman said. It is difficult to find many examples of political parties led by the youthful leaders ever since its inception, he added.
He said that it was in response to call from the youth of FATA that the PPP decided to extend the Political Parties Act to the tribal areas allowing all political parties to operate in the tribal areas and thereby give an alternate world view and a choice to the people.
Again it was in response to a call from the people of FATA, particularly its youth, that the party co-chairman recently addressed a letter to the prime minister to take measures for extending the jurisdiction of superior courts to the tribal areas so that the tribal people, particularly its youth could function politically with no fear of their fundamental rights being trampled. He said there was need for bipartisan approach in making legislation in this regard.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has also directed that study circles that were introduced by Benazir Bhutto to educate the youth and political workers, be revived, he maintained.

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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