ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari Thursday said that Pakistan Peoples Party would continue to pursue its agenda of socio-economic development and will not be distracted from it under any circumstances.

Addressing a meeting of the elected Nazims, Councilors and office bearers of the party from Rawalpindi district in the Presidency today he said the government was determined to pursue a larger agenda and not bogged down in petty political squabblings.

The President said that Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had given nuclear technology and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto gave the country missile technology and made strong the defenses of Pakistan and at the same time embarked upon a massive socio-economic development program.

He said that the present government had decided to make Pakistan a welfare driven state where the welfare of the poor and downtrodden masses was given precedence over every other thing.

In this context, the President said the government has launched Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) to extricate the poor from below the poverty line, reinstated the sacked workers, gave 12 percent shares in state-run enterprises to the workers and devised plans to give state lands free of cost to poor women in the command areas of the twelve new dams that will be built in the country in the next three years.

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