SUKKUR: Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto declared at Kandhkot ... this morning [Jan 31] that from now onwards Wadera Shahi would not be allowed to suck the blood of the poor. Addressing a huge gathering at an open kutchery ... the Prime Minister also declared that the cruel perpetrators of `Zulum` on the poor did not have any place in his party, nor could such people be his friends. `We do not care for the cruel, howsoever big he might be. We care only for the poor,` he declared.

Prime Minister Bhutto said that his party`s fundamental principle, on which his Government was now based, was that `the people are the real sovereigns, the real strength of the country`. The Prime Minister declared that his Government would strive ... to weed out corruption and thefts. `I am not going to spare for a moment any corrupt official or officials, who failed to check the incidence of theft. ...` The Prime Minister disclosed that his Government had prepared a master plan for counteracting waterlogging. ... [He said] that he was touring ... the interior in the service of the people. `I have not come here to enjoy parties, take tea, enjoy partridges, but I have come to serve you.` Correspondent