04 April 2004	Sunday	13 Safar 1425

LARKANA, April 3: Sindh People's Party Parliamentarians president Nisar Ahmad Khuhro has said it has been confirmed that party chairperson Benazir Bhutto will address the main function in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto on the midnight of April 3 and 4 to observe the death anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Giving detail of the revised programme of the 25th anniversary of the late Bhutto while talking to journalists at his house here on Saturday, he said a two-minute silence would be observed at 2.12am as a mark of respect for the party founder.

He said documentaries showing scenes of tortures inflicted on Mr Bhutto in jail would be screened on a projector at the anniversary programme.

Meanwhile, in a message on the occasion, Benazir Bhutto said the first elected prime minister had saved the country from disintegration in the aftermath of the 1971 tragedy.

She said defeatists had said that Pakistan would fail to survive after the 1971 incident but Mr Bhutto defied them.

She said the former premier had also fulfilled Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's dream by giving the country its first Islamic, democratic and egalitarian constitution.

"That constitutional framework is now endangered. Under the Legal Framework Order, parliament exists but power is vested outside it", Ms Bhutto regretted.

She said it was the late Bhutto who had started the country's nuclear programme.

She said Mr Bhutto was opposed to military rule.

Mr Khuhro told the journalists that Alliance for Restoration of Democracy leaders and others, including Rasool Bakhsh Palijo, Hasil Khan Bizenjo and Abida Hussain, would participate in the function.

He thanked PPP MPAs from Sindh for donating their one-month salary for the arrangements.

He said followers and lovers of Mr Bhutto had started arriving from different parts of the country in Larkana to participate in the function.

TWO DROWN: Two PPP activists, Arshad Baloch and Tahseen Baloch, drowned while taking a bath in the Rice Canal near Naudero on Saturday.