The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) would observe a ‘black day’ on July 5th to protest the ousting of the party’s founder, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, through a military coup in 1977, read a statement issued from the party’s media cell on Sunday.
Under the directives of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the party ******s across the country would hoist black flags and observe a black-day to condemn the ouster of democracy and imposition of dictatorship in the country.
ZA Bhutto’s elected democratic government was overthrown by dictator General Zia-ul-Haq on the day while Bhutto was imprisoned and subsequently tried for murder of a political rival and hanged, on April 4, 1979.
07-04-2016, 03:21 AM
PPP to observe ?black day? on July 5
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