Address at the Pakistan People’s Party Cultural Show on December 1, 1972

At the conclusion of the show, the President, addressing the audience, said that the people’s struggle would go on undeterred and expressed the hope that “we shall, Insha Allah, carry the people to the destination.” He told the audience that he would not take any decision himself and added, “it is the National Assembly which will take decisions on important national issues because that is what democracy demands.”

The President said that we will have to go the rescue of the people in East Pakistan. The reactionaries, however, he said, did not want us to do so.

The President said that his Government was determined to wipe out poverty and ignorance and it was possible only when we take correct decision which are in the interest of Pakistan and its people.