IIe said that when the people were engaged in their country-wide movement against Ayub dictatorship, the reactionary forces had tried to stem the tide by raising the bogey of 'Islam in danger' only to save their jagirdaris, zamindaris, wealth and other vested interests. Some of these reactionary people had so much exploited Islam that they even dared to desecrate the Holy Quran by burning its copics only to blame the torch-bearers of the movement against the Ayub regime.
According to PPI, Mr. Bhutto also referred to a suggestion of a local English daily and said that if he remained in the opposition; how could he solve the people's problems, who would then bring down the prices and who would liberate the masses from the clutches of capitalists?
