LARKANA, Dec 29: The Pakistan People’s Party’s central executive committee will meet on Sunday at Naudero House to thrash out a post-Benazir strategy.
According to Senator Safdar Abbasi, the CEC will focus on two issues – elections and the party’s top leadership.
Party sources told Dawn that the meeting would take up a document containing Ms Bhutto’s will. Her Soyem will be held on Sunday at Naudero House.
A Western news agency quoted PPP’s information secretary Sherry Rehman as saying on Saturday that the party would decide whether to take part in the election or not in the Sunday meeting.
Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview that Benazir Bhutto had left instructions about the future of the PPP to be read in the event of her death. This would be made public on Sunday.
Asif Zardari told BBC Radio that his son Bilawal would read out the message.
Mr Zardari also said his wife had made detailed plans for her burial, including changing the location of the plot from his family’s ancestral tomb to her family’s mausoleum following a recent suicide bomb attack.
“She has left a message for the party and she has left a will, so we shall be doing that tomorrow (Sunday) after the third day (of mourning,)” he said.
“We have called for a meeting and her will will be read out there and the instructions she has left will be read out there.”
In reply to a question whether he would succeed her as party leader, Mr Zardari said: “It depends on the party and depends on the will.”
Mr Zardari also spoke about his personal sense of loss.
