PPP calls CEC meeting on April 4

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party has summoned its Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting on April 4 at Ghari Khuda Buksh in Larkana on the eve of 38th death anniversary of its party founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to chalk out the party’s future political strategy in a post Panama case verdict and future political alliance for the next general elections.

The meeting would jointly be chaired by Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and former president Asif Ali Zardari at Ghari Khuda Buksh in Larkana. After Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s death anniversary on April 4, the PPP leaders will contact various politicians, making Punjab its base to flex its political muscle.

According to sources, Zardari and Bilawal will also make a decision to contest the by-elections for the National Assembly, which they had announced last year in December on the eve of the martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, after the verdict of the Supreme Court on the Panama case.

The party’s alliances and restructuring will take shape after the verdict of the Supreme Court over the Panama Papers case could be announced by next week. The PPP for the past few months has been trying to flex its political muscle in Punjab by holding rallies and visiting estranged voters as Zardari and Bilawal were in Lahore. 

In a recent meetings with the PPP leaders and workers of Punjab in Lahore, Zardari told them that he had a lot of things to do but he was waiting for the political stage to be set to reveal his strategies. He also said that both he and Bilawal Bhutto were monitoring the current political situation carefully.