President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the steps taken to restore the Constitution reaffirms the political philosophy of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto that the people alone are the legitimate fountainhead of political power.We pledge to continue forward our march to empower the people, the President said in his message to the nation on the 31st martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on April 4.President Zardari said Quaid-i-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto awakened the people and led the collective national effort to give the country a unanimous Constitution that was federal, democratic and parliamentary in character to keep the nation united. Today on the eve of his 31st martyrdom anniversary it is most reassuring that the nation is poised to restore to democratic Constitution by removing from it all vestiges of dictatorship, he said. He said the constitution was distorted and mutilated by successive dictatorships and added that the restoration of the Constitution is indeed a befitting tribute to the leader of masses who sacrificed his life for the people, democracy and the Constitution. Paying tributes to the Shaheed leader, he expressed thanks to all those who made possible the nations march to restore the democratic Constitution and empower the people and the parliament. Inculcating in the people the belief that political power belonged to them was a singular achievement of Shaheed Bhutto as no dictatorship since then has been able to rob the masses of the power of this realization, he said. President Zardari said Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto led the fight against dictatorship from the front and willingly laid down his life for the cause of the people to join the ranks of immortals. He said leaders like Bhutto are born only once in generations, and said that it was indeed a lasting tribute to his memory that Bhutto and Bhuttoism still lives in the hearts and minds of the people. From his grave, Shaheed Bhutto haunts dictators. Reverberations of 'Jeeay Bhutto still send shivers in the enemies of democracy, he said. President Zardari said Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto believed in dialogue and negotiations as the principal instruments to resolve most complex national and international political issues. He said Bhutto demonstrated it, at the national level, by giving the country a unanimous Constitution and at the international level, by recovering the territory lost in the 1971 war, bringing back tens of thousands of prisoners of war and preventing trial of the countrys military officers to protect the name and honor of the country. He said the years of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto will always be remembered as years that witnessed the nation filled with vitality and driven by a sense of purpose and shared destiny. President Zardari said Bhutto will be remembered as Pakistans modernize who left deep footprints on the sands of history. On this anniversary of Shaheed Bhutto, we celebrate the life he lived and the successes he achieved in making Pakistan strong and prosperous, he said. He urged the party workers to rededicate themselves to the ideals for which Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lived and laid down his life for the cause of people.