Words of Bhutto
My dear friends: Pakistan cannot progress
under the present system. It cannot become a strong country if poverty
and misery are on the increase. Pakistan can progress only if the people
of Pakistan progress. The present position is that the plight of the
common man is most miserable. There is large-scale unemployment. If the
people fall sick they cannot get treatment in hospitals. How can
Pakistan progress under these conditions? That is why this party demands
economic change because without economic change there can be no progress
in Pakistan. So far as socialism is concerned it is a programme for
economic progress, just as democracy is a political programme. If we can
be good Muslims by demanding democracy there is no reason why we cannot
be as good as Muslims in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, the Sudan and in Algeria.
All these countries are Islamic countries and they have adopted a
socialist pattern of economy. Why can't Pakistan do the same?