PPP to mark ZAB death anniversary in Rawalpindi

PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, Information Secretary Senator Robina Khalid said on Monday the death anniversary of Qaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto would be held on April 4 at Liaqat Bagh in Rawalpindi this year.

Addressing a press conference along with party’s Provincial Deputy Secretary Information Gohar Inqalabi, she said the party workers from across the country would pay rich tributes to late ZA Bhutto for his services for strengthening democracy and fighting dictatorship.

The senator said PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had played a key role in the formation of Pakistan Democratic Movement and would continue the struggle for genuine democracy in the country.

She said PPP is a democratic party and believed in power of the masses and would not leave political field open for opponents by resigning from the assemblies.The PPP leader said Yousuf Raza Gilani’s right to win was snatched in the election for the Senate chairman slot as his seven votes were rejected, which she believed, unlawfully.

Speaking on the occasion, Gohar Inqalabi said that a meeting of PPP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter was held on Monday under the chairmanship of Provincial President Humayun Khan to review arrangements for the death anniversary of ZA Bhutto. He said that the party’s caravans from all the southern districts would gather at Peshawar while the party workers from Charsadda.