The newly-formed Pakistan People's Party has vowed to continue its political support to President Pervez Musharraf in the greater interest of the country's economic and political stability.
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Speaking at a press conference at a local hotel on Wednesday, Defence Minister Rao Sikandar Iqbal said that the merger of PPP's splinter groups would give a new life to the followers of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who had set a new trend in politics and made the downtrodden people aware of their rights. Mr Rao, who was accompanied by Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, Water and Power Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao and Minister of State for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Raza Hayat Hiraj, said the PPP had decided to play a pragmatic and positive role to keep the democratic process on track.
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"We are part of the government which has painted a new image of the country in the comity of nations. Now we are strong at home as well as on international fronts," he added. He lauded the efforts made by Gen Musharraf to steer the country out of the manifold crises, a result of 9/11, by siding with the international coalition against global terrorism. It was also a great achievement of President Musharaf that the country's economy had been put on sound footing, he added. Mr Sherpao, who is the president of the united PPP after the merger of Patriots and Sherpao groups, announced the names of PPP office-bearers for the NWFP. |