19 May 2004	Wednesday	28 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425

ISLAMABAD, May 18: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto has called several meetings of the party office- bearers and parliamentarians from all over the country in London beginning from the first week of June.

The purpose of these meetings is to enable the party officials and the parliamentarians to meet the chairperson and the relevant members of the provincial organizations jointly to resolve any outstanding matters relating to the functioning of the party, says PPP spokesman Senator Farhatullah Khan Babar in a statement issued here on Tuesday.

He said the meetings were not mandatory and are only meant for those party officials and parliamentarians, who wished to discuss organizational or electoral matters with the chairperson and the provincial organizations jointly.

The PPP senator said separate days had been fixed for the party officials and the parliamentarians, who had been called according to their geographical areas.

The units that will be visiting are the provincial executives and state parliamentarians of Azad Kashmir, NWFP, Balochistan, Punjab and Sindh, he said, adding separate dates and time had been allocated to the parliamentarians and office-bearers from Lahore and Karachi given their geographical size.

He said after presiding over a dozen meetings of the party leaders from Pakistan, Ms Bhutto would meet the office-bearers of the PPP, UK, journalists and leaders of some other political parties.

Mr Babar said Ms Bhutto had decided not to hold individual meetings with any member. He said this decision had been taken by the chairperson as the CEC meeting, held in February, this year, could not be conducted smoothly due to the individual meetings.