July 29, 2002	Monday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 18,1423

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KARACHI, July 28: Benazir Bhutto has been re-elected chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party in its intra-party elections. Along with her, almost all the office-bearers of the central organization have also returned unopposed.

The party elections were held on Sunday to meet the condition which the Political Parties Order, 2002, imposes on political parties, requiring them to hold their polls according to their constitution and notify its results to the Election Commission within seven days and furnish a list of elected office-bearers and report of its audited accounts by Aug 5 for becoming eligible to contest the October elections.

The central election commission of the party, headed by Aftab Shahban Mirani, on Sunday formally announced the names of all those central PPP office-bearers who have returned unopposed as no one from the party had filed any nomination papers against them.

Besides chairperson Benazir Bhutto, others who have been declared elected are: Vice-Chairman Makhdoom Amin Faheem, Secretary General Jehangir Badr, Deputy Secretary Generals Mian Raza Rabbani and Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Information Secretary Taj Haider, Deputy Information Secretary Altaf Ahmed Qureshi and Finance Secretary Ehsan-ul-Haq Piracha.

The members of the Central Committee are: (Punjab) Haji Nawaz Khokhar, Mohammad Afzal Sindhu, Chaudhry Naurez Shakoor, Chaudhry Mohammad Zaka Ashraf, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, Makhdoom Shahbuddin, Nawabzada Ghazanfar Gul and Rao Sikandar Iqbal; (Sindh) Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Syed Naveed Qamar, Khurshid Ahmad Shah, Nabil Gabol and Safdar Ali Abbasi.

PPP SINDH: President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Vice-Presidents Haji Muzaffar Ali Shujra, Kazi Asad Abid, Pir Aftab Hussain Shah Jilani, Manzoor Wasan and Agha Siraj Durrani. General Secretary Rashid Hussain Rabbani, Deputy General Secretary Maula Buksh Chandio, Information Secretary Munawwar Hussain Suhrawardi, Secretary Record Lal Buksh Bhutto, Secretary Public Relations Abdul Salam Thahim and Abdul Khaliq Soomro.

During a visit to a District East polling station, set up on Rashid Minhas Road, which was supervised by DRO Saeed Ghani, this reporter saw that over 3,200 votes had been cast out of a list of 4,000 party members enlisted with their national identity cards. The polling started at 9am and closed at 5pm, with only a few left who could not cast their vote.

Once the polling was over, the party workers from all the five districts reached the Bilawal House in the form of a procession and marched up to the Mazar of Abdullah Shah Ghazi where floral wreaths were laid.