March 29, 2003	Saturday	Muharram 25, 1424

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DUBAI, March 28: The Pakistan People’s Party has decided to organize anti-war demonstrations in the country and strengthen its campaign against the Legal Framework Order (LFO) in and outside the parliament.

The PPP leaders, who came here from all over Pakistan, returned home after consultations on the US-led war on Iraq, struggle to repeal LFO and a strategy to increase party image and profile among the masses.

A leader of the PPP from Punjab told this reporter that members of the party’s central executive committee, the federal council and the committee on the foreign affairs held meeting for three days with PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto and discussed policy and organizational issues in details.

He said that the PPP would organize and participate in anti- war demonstrations in Pakistan and would also harden its campaign against the LFO, and the leaders were told to vehemently oppose the LFO in and outside the parliament.

There would be no organizational changes as were predicted in certain party quarters, except filling up minor positions that were lying vacant, a sources said, adding that the major organizational decision was to organize the party at a grassroots level and a rift in the NWFP wing of the party was also resolved.

The source aid that there was no decision on Ms Bhutto’s return from self-exile to Pakistan.