Monday, October 13, 2008
Karachi
The design for a monument to be erected in the memory of the victims who died in the October 18 bomb blasts at the welcome rally of the late Benazir Bhutto last year has been approved by Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Qaim Ali Shah. The CM will inaugurate the construction of the monument at Karsaz on Saturday.
Confirming this, official sources said that many designs were presented to the CM, of which he approved one. The monument will be a 54-foot high “arrow”, the PPP election symbol, and will be built on the green belt on the site of the blasts in which more than 150 people were killed and hundreds injured during the welcome rally of Benazir Bhutto.
The monument’s height of 54 feet has symbolic value, with Benazir being 54 years old at the time of the incident.
The monument will be made of concrete, and the PPP has decided that big portraits of the late Benazir would also be displayed at the site.
The decision to construct the monument was taken when the PPP came to power and different designers had been working on this project. The party decided to unveil this monument on the one-year anniversary of the incident.