President urges nation to help end poverty, exploitation

President Asif Ali Zardari has urged the nation to help end poverty and exploitation and remember their less fortunate brethren on the festive occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. The President in a message on felicitated the Muslims throughout the world and particularly those in Pakistan but asked the countrymen “not to forget those who suffer and endure and are deprived of true joy.” The President said it saddens him that so many of the people are living in despair and misery brought by unemployment, low wages or lack of justice.

“Let us therefore also strive and pray on this day that the deprivations of the people will soon be over and they regain their civil and economic rights.”
The President said the celebrations indeed were a commemoration of the supreme sacrifice offered by Hazrat Ibrahim (May Allah be pleased with him).
He said the commemoration of Hazrat Ibrahim’s supreme sacrifice was also an occasion for the Muslims throughout the world to affirm unity of action in an imperishable bond of brotherhood.
President Zardari said Eid-ul-Azha symbolises the willingness to sacrifice one’s most prized possession to Allah’s will on one hand and the underlying unity of thought and action of the Muslims on the other.
He said “Eid-ul-Azha should serve to remind us that we have an obligation to our community through which we attain a higher purpose in life. So while we celebrate and rejoice let us also pause and ponder.”
On the festive occasion of Eid-ul-Azha I call upon my countrymen to also remember our less fortunate brethren. We must not forget those who suffer and endure and are deprived of true joy. Let us therefore resolve to end poverty and exploitation wherever we see it.