LARKANA: PPP workers hold demonstration

Published September 14, 2002

LARKANA, Sept 13: A large number of Pakistan People’s Party workers held a rally on Friday protesting against the rejection of the nomination papers of party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, president of PPP, Sindh chapter.

A PPP leader, Mashooque Jatoi, led the procession that converged outside the Jinnah Bagh after marching on the main roads of Larkana city.

Extensive police patrolling was seen in the city following the rejection of the papers of both Benazir and Nisar Ahmed Khuhro.

Addressing the protesters, Mr Mashooque, Hafiz Ghulam Mustafa Abbasi, Altaf Rind, and Saleem Soomro termed the rejection of the papers a conspiracy, and added the establishment did not want the PPP to come into power.

ELECTION CAMPAIGN: The PPP has launched its election campaign in the district by holding a corner meeting in Waleed on Thursday.

Speaking at the meeting the former deputy speaker of the national assembly, Dr Mrs Ashraf Abbasi, Haji Munwar Ali Abbasi and others were confident that PPP would emerge as the single largest party in the October polls, despite their fears of rigging by the government.

The meeting was attended, among others, by the party nominees, notables and the sister organisations of PPP.

They urged the workers to energetically participate in the coming polls.

MAN SHOT DEAD: Two brothers, Lakhmir and Rabil, shot dead their maternal uncle, Ghulam Rasool Mirjat, and injured a man over a domestic dispute in the Haji Khan Mirjat village on Friday.

The injured man was admitted to the CMC Hospital.

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