Its 'Back to the Basics' time for PPP

The first ever convention of Pakistan Peoples' Party was held at Lahore on November 30, 1967. It was in this meet that the Party was founded, by a unanimous decision of the attending delegates. Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (who was elected Party's first Chairman on December 1, 1967) in his key note address to mark the occasion said, "Looking back upon the twenty years of our national existence, we find that tension has been added to tension, problems have been heaped upon problems, frustration has been raised to scaring heights, while nothing at the base has found a settled level."
He remarked, " I have often wondered why we as a nation should have to live in this state of perpetual uncertainty. Do we take it as a natural phenomenon? Let us look at other countries. Many have had to tackle a host of fundamental problems, which most have been able to solve successfully. Once the basic problems had been settled and left behind, such countries have then devoted their attention to problems of a different nature. We, on the contrary, find ourselves unfortunately more or less on the same spot as before- with fundamental problems unsolved - in the state of suspense."
"The root cause of this immobility lay in the fact that fundamental national problems had never been referred to the people at any time. The people alone could finally settle the issues. No individual held a special mandate from God to lay down the law for the people of Pakistan, it was people who had struggled for their ideological objective the creation of Pakistan, and whose welfare was at stake and they only could determine the final nature of their state and government. The continuing crisis and suspense was the result of denying the people the possibility of deciding their future themselves."
"We are living in a monstrous economic system of loot and plunder which the regime lauds as free enterprise. Pakistan Peoples' Party stood for social justice, based on the principle that the means of production should never be allowed to become means of exploitation of the masses. In accordance with this principle, the ownership of all key industries should be vested in the people. All the basic industries should be nationalised and the public sector should include banking, insurance, transport, the production of electrical energy, fuel resources and the exploitation of the mineral wealth of the country. The Social Economic Programme would quicken the pace of economic progress, which was being actually hindered by unrestrained monopolist capitalism such as exists in Pakistan."