ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that the late dictator Ziaul Haq`s policies spawned privatisation of jihad and sectarianism and the usurpers of people`s rights and freedom must be punished.In his message on the 40th anniversary ofthe takeoverofthecountryby a dictatorship on July 5, 1977, former president Zardari said that unfortunately the disastrous policy of privatisation of jihad and exploitation of religion for political endscontinued to haunt the nation.

`Let us on this day vow to reverse these policies, fight the mindset of religious extremism and end the privatisation of jihad and sectarianism that the dictator`s polices spawned. Let us alsoresolve that dictators and usurpers of people`s rights and freedoms must be punished,` he said. `The need to clearly understand the disastrous consequences of these policies has never been as great as it is today.`-Staff Reporter